Word: mozartism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...money is in Germany, the least in the U.S., where travel costs are higher.) Although I Musici's repertory includes "more modern music than our audiences like to think we know" (Barber, Britten, Bartok), attendance falls if the orchestra plays too many contemporary compositions-or even too much Mozart. For better or worse, the orchestra has discovered, nothing sells quite so well as "the madness of Vivaldi...
...Brussels' Queen Elisabeth Concours (in which he finished second to Russia's Vladimir Ashkenazy). Unlike Cliburn, who is often identified with Tchaikovsky and other romantics, and Gould, who polished his reputation on Bach. Pianist Browning has not been linked with any school, but favors Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert-German and Austrian composers that he feels he can "go into for 30 or 40 years and never touch bottom." And his style, as he demonstrated again last week when he played Mozart's rarely heard Concerto in B-Flat Major, lies somewhere between Cliburn bravura and Gould introspection...
...Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J. S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (dam' fine fellahs, too) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...
...pianists--all recent and all recommended--must be telescoped into the following list: Van Cliburn, Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto--exciting only in the final moment (RCA Victor LM/LSC 2562); Robert Casadesus, Schumann's Papillons, Waldscenen and Symphonic Etudes--a delightful record (Columbia ML5642/MS6242); Mr. Casadesus and his wife Gaby, Mozart's Concerto for two Pianos, K. 365--an incomparable performance (Columbia ML 5674/MS 6274); and Alexander Brailowsky, Chopin's 14 Waltzes--a workmanlike but rather bored interpretation (Columbia ML 5628/MS...
...unlike Mozart, Stravinsky's setting of three Latin psalms is angular, harsh and massive. The chorus is made to sing heavy, declarative lines, which must, for a performance to succeed, be delineated and articulated with considerable precision. And last night under Mr. Senturia's direction, the Glee Club and Choral Society sang the Psalms impeccably. Their tone, full and fortunately wholesome, was rigidly controlled throughout, attacks were impressively clean, and self assured...