Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOZART: THE SIX QUINTETS FOR STRING QUARTET AND VIOLA (3 LPs; Columbia). In his later years, Mozart liked to play the viola; so he added a darker color to the string quartet by doubling the viola's voice. The five late quintets contain, besides the expected felicitous melodies, melting modulations and sprightly symmetries, some rich polyphony and dramatic interchanges. Walter Trampler brings his viola to the Budapest String Quartet, which is constantly updating its repertory to take advantage of improved recording techniques. This is their third recording of the quintets; they can stop...
TCHAIKOVSKY: "SOUVENIR DE FLORENCE" (RCA Victor). Tchaikovsky added an extra cello to Mozart's quintet, but the effect in his rambunctious opening movement is more like 60 strings than six. With its robust peasant dances, twining lines of song and sudden hushes and crescendos, Tchaikovsky's tribute to Florence is theatrical and Slavic. The new Guarneri Quartet, joined by half the Budapest Quartet, manages an almost symphonic treatment of the composer's work...
...BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (3 LPs; RCA Victor) have recorded with zest and polish an evening of music ranging in time from Mozart's sunny, transparent Quartet in D for Flute and Strings to the late Irving Fine's romantic and unsettling Fantasia for String Trio (1957). Most fetching of the four contemporary works is Elliott Carter's Woodwind Quintet, with its light melodic fragments breezily tossed and tangled like crepe-paper streamers...
Artist Marc Chagall believes in "God, Mozart and color." The Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing believes in Mozart, Chagall and boxoffice. Thus, when the Met scheduled a new production of The Magic Flute, it seemed only right that the 79-year-old Chagall should design the sets and costumes. No matter that he had never before tried his hand at opera; The Magic Flute is fantasy, and in that misty, mystical medium Chagall is the original beautiful dreamer. "He is so very right for it," said Bing...
...cast, looking vaguely lost in Chagall's vast fantascapes, nonetheless performed elegantly. Mozart Specialist Josef Krips conducted manfully against the visual competition, and Baritone Hermann Prey's comical Papageno was as close to a show stealer as the conditions would permit. Chagall's whimsical spectacular notwithstanding, there was too much art and not enough Mozart...