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Chamber Works of Bach, Mendelssohn, Beethoven and Wienawski. At Adams House...
...single performance of Mozart, Brahms, Prokofiev and Ysaye. These two Harvard talents are always exciting and moving. The Busch-Reisinger Thursday Noon Recital Series is always available; this week's a "Consort of early music." Dunster House Music Society rounds out the weekend with Bach on Friday and a Mendelssohn trio on Sunday afternoon...
...Cambridge Chamber Players, with Guest Artist Pianist Andre-Michel Schub, will present the final Longy Series Concert including pieces by Beethoven, Villa-lobos, Mozart and Mendelssohn at the Longy School of Music...
...Mendelssohn: Quartet in D, Op. 44, No. 1; Schumann: Quartet in A minor, Op. 41, No. 1 (Budapest Quartet, Odyssey). Though less well known than their composers' works for orchestra or piano, these string quartets are charmers. The first is as spirited and melodic as one would expect from Mendelssohn. The second is imbued with the blend of impulsiveness and poetic fancy that Schumann alone seemed to possess. The superlative interpretations by the sui generis Budapest Quartet come from tapes of live performances at the Library of Congress in 1959 and 1961 and are released here for the first...
WORKS BY SCHUBERT, MENDELSSOHN, BERLIOZ, TCHAIKOVSKY, DEBUSSY, RESPIGHI AND STRAUSS (Philadelphia Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; RCA, 5 LPs). The first complete release of a series of recordings made in 1941-42 finds the conductor producing spacious, clear-textured virtuoso performances...