Word: martinu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...intensity. Klemperer is overly eulogzed as "the Olympian, interpreter of the classics." And too often it is said of Charles Munch, beloved as he is, that "he does well only in French music." Friday's contert clearly belied this cruel simplification. Choosing three of his favorite works--by Elgar, Martinu, and Saint-Saens, Munch displayed powers of drama and orchestral coloring over a wide variety of material. The Boston Symphony responded to his return like a faithful wife, recovering a zeal and devotion long thought destroyed...
...real triumph of the afternoon came with the Fantaisies Symphoniques, the Sixth Symphony, of the late Czech composer Bohuslav Martinu. It is unsurprising that the performance appeared beyond reproach, for the symphony was composed for Munch himself, with his conducting talents explicitly in mind. Munch united all the conflicting episods (ranging from ominous ostinate passages to hymnlike chords) into a thoroughly convincing whole. This was a difficult achievement, for the work is diffuse in form and ambiguous in meaning. It is suggested that Martinu was here meditating about his imminent death...
...with a giant's jauntiness, as though he were about to put it under his chin instead of between his knees. It scarcely mattered that the pieces they chose to play for the first concert proved something of a disappointment. The Boccherini sonata seemed stiff, a duo by Martinu stilted. But in the Brahms C Major Trio, the famed Heifetz creamy tone and the Piatigorsky sonority were a sensuous delight. In the second of the three-concert series, they chose a program of Beethoven, Kodaly and Dvorak, and with the outstanding assistance of Pianist Jacob Lateiner they produced...
...Monday the Summer School will present the Marlboro trio in a concert at Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. The young string ensemble will perform Schumann's Trio in F Major; Martinu's Five Pieces for Trio (1931): Faure's Trio, Op. 120; and "Dirge and Variations," written for the Marlboro Trio by David Amram...
Sunday, August 5: 10:00 Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event. 2:30 Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Munch; Brahms; Hayden Variations; Martinu; Fantasies symphoniques; Beethoven; Piano Concerto No.5, Emperor (Serkin...