Word: hindemith
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...Bloch: Concerto Grosso for Strings and Piano Obbligato (M); Mozart: Quintet in E flat, K. 614 (C); Hindemith: The Four Temperaments (E); Handel: Solomon (A); Imbrie: Quartet in B flat (C); Locatelli: Elegiac Symphony (W); Haydn: Trio...
...Hindemith: Nobilissima Visione (A); Boccherini: Trio No. 3 in E flat, Op. 35 (W); Moussorgsky: Sorochintsy Fair (E); Mendelssohn: Sonata No. 2 for 'Cello (Cap); Kodaly: Marosszek Dances (D); Beethoven: Piano Concerto #3 in C minor...
...Evening Concert: Mozart--Zauberflote Overture (L) Ond. 356 Mussorgsky--Pictures at an Exhibitions (V) LM 1014; Brahms Double Concerto (A) Ang. 35353; Beethoven Grosse Fuge (C) ML 4587; Hindemith--Nobilissimo Visione...
...first half of the program consisted of Hindemith's Symphony in E-flat, composed in 1930. This is a turgid, tense work, and it received a rather turgid, tense performance. There were some passages of technical finesse and sparkle, particularly the wind sections of the last movement; but most of it was pretty dogged. Aside from some intonation problems, the notes were faithfully gone through, showing effort but very little imagination; as a result, the big, well-scored passages sounded good, the small, thin sections were dull...
...sound they produced was clean, relaxed, admirably unblurred. The music for the most part was richly ornamented, to take full advantage of the presence of 20 fingers on 88 keys. Demus and Badura-Skoda executed filigreed turns of Mozart, trickily syncopated rhythms of Hindemith, florid, zestful melodies of Schubert with a fine fluency and flair. Each throttled his individual sound, avoiding the pounding effect that often afflicts duo pianists playing on separate instruments...