Word: landowska
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
While long-nosed Wanda Landowska was giving brilliant, vigorous, scholarly performances of C. P. E. Bach in Toronto last week (see col. 2), Leopold Stokowski was busy in Manhattan with Johann Sebastian Bach's tremendous St. Matthew Passion. He turned it into a weird theatrical spectacle that reminded Bach scholars of the audience reaction to the first performance in Leipzig's Thomaskirche in 1729. At that time a scandalized old lady rose to her feet and exclaimed: "God help us! It's surely an opera comedy...
...long-lost concertos have had a way of turning up in unexpected places. Recently Toronto musical circles have been celebrating the discovery of a rich cache of 14 C. P. E. concertos. To do them justice, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. brought world-famed Harpsichordist Wanda Landowska to Toronto and set her to work playing the concertos, one by one, in a series of Sunday evening broadcasts...
...Manhattan's Town Hall dour Wanda Landowska took her bow in a harpsichord recital which critics pronounced the finest tinkling of its kind. At Carnegie Hall a recital by dignified Pianist Egon Petri followed the recital of an indomitable U.S. lady violinist, Byrd Elliot, who perennially performs before an audience that would scarcely strain the capacity of an average front parlor. Baritone Yves Tinayre, accompanied by a troop of dramatic dancers, moaned the music of medieval French masters in a recital which one critic described as "constricted cooing...
Conducting will be Malcolm R. Holmes '28. while G. Wallace Woodworth '24. will be guest conductor. As a special feature of the program. Putnam Aldrich well known Boston harpsichord soloist, will play two arrangements by Bach. Aldrich has studied abroad with Wanda Landowska and Nadia Bonlanger...
...Piano and Orchestra, K. 467 (London Symphony, Malcolm Sargent conducting. with Artur Schnabel; Victor: 8 sides; Concerto in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491 (London Philharmonic, Lawrence Collingwood conducting, with Edwin Fischer; Victor: 8 sides), and Concerto in D Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 537 (Wanda Landowska with Chamber Orchestra; Walter Goehr conducting; Victor: 7 sides). Choice between the month's three Mozart piano concertos is hard to make. Each of the three is one of Mozart's finest works, each is done in top-notch style...