Word: mendelssohns
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...Violin Concerto, in fine performances by Jascha Heifetz and London's Philharmonia Orchestra under Walter Susskind (Victor), and Zino Francescatti and the New York PhilhaononicSymphony under Dimitri Mitropoulos (Columbia); Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No. I (Nathan Milstein and the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Vladimir Golschmann; Capitol); Mendelssohn's Elijah (soloists, choirs and the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Josef Krips; London...
Beethoven to Mendelssohn. As a result of Editor Blom's uninhibited pen (always filled with green ink), much of Grove V is merry and informative,* avoids the sentimental dogma of earlier editions...
...honorable," Grove V is more cautious, also concludes that "we need not expend much pity upon Beethoven the thwarted lover." Beethoven's cryptic answer when asked what the Appassionato Sonata meant ("Read Shakespeare's Tempest") is now interpreted as a flip: "Don't ask silly questions." Mendelssohn, who was the No. i darling of Grove IV, with 60 florid pages ("Few instances can be found in history of a man so amply gifted with every good quality of mind and heart"), gets his shrift shortened. Grove V explains that he expected a minimum of intellectual effort from...
...great deal more lyrical than dramatic. Hence this is A Midsummer Night's Dream treated, as in 19th century days, as a kind of operatic spectacle, and in much the same 19th century style. It is a Dream that uses, as did a Kean or a Beerbohm Tree, Mendelssohn's enchantingly equivalent score; a Dream employing the classic patterns of romantic ballets; a Dream mounted with lush, moonlit décor evoking Poe's world rather than Shakespeare...
...result, Mendelssohn is more the hero of the evening than Shakespeare; Moira Shearer's dancing far surpasses any actor's speech; the ass's head that Bottom wears is more entertaining than Stanley Holloway's Bottom. Only Robert Helpmann as Oberon can render Shakespeare's diction as well as dance, can become something fleet, mischievous, magical-and believably Shakespearean...