Word: mozart
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suaver, more brilliant, more impassioned, but no other orchestra brings to 18th and 19th century classics the same air of joyous spontaneity. Last week, under Conductor Herbert von Karajan, the orchestra arrived in Manhattan on a 40-day, six-country tour. At each of the concerts, the Viennese played Mozart-Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Symphony No. 40-and to many listeners the effect was startling. Most Western orchestras play Mozart as if they remembered the 18th century only as the Age of Reason, give the music a cold, chiseled brilliance. The Viennese approach is easy, mellow, almost sentimental, conveying a chamber...
...EVENING CONCERT. Sibelius, Karelia Suite, opus 11; Bach, French Suite no. 4 in E flat; Stavinsky, Capriccio for piano and orchestra; Schubert, Trio no. 2 in E flat, opus 100; Mozart, Concerto for bassoon in B flat...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Don Giovanni Overture; Smetana, Czech polkas and dances; Monteverdi, Ballo delle Ingrate; Schubert, Divertissement a la Hongroise; Stamitz, Sinfonia Concertante in F; Mendelssohn, Quartet 6, opus 44; Poulenc, Aubade; Poot, Octet...
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Mozart, Cosi fan Tutti overture; Schumann, Trio no. 3 in G--opus 110; Lo Presti, The Masks; Petzold, Sonata no. 2 for Brass; Sibelius, Peleas et Melisande; Dohanvi, Quintet for Pf. and strings; Haydn, Symphony 180 in D; Schubert, Deux Marchas Characteristique; Khrennikov, Symphony no. 1 in B flat; Handel, Suite for Harpsichord...
...EVENING CONCERT. Mozart, Overture to Der Schauspieldirektor; Prokoviev, Quintet, opus 39; Beethoven, Concerto no. 4 in G for piano, opus 58; Schubert, Sonata in B flat, opus post.; Handel, Concerto Grosso, opus...