Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carter, "is his depth of understanding." It is an understanding that Lateiner has distilled from scholarly scrutiny of the original manuscripts of the music he plays. A collector by inclination (rare books, German expressionist drawings), he has amassed an impressive number of sketches and first-edition scores by Beethoven, Mozart and other composers, is often asked by other musicians to decipher the Sanskrit-like scratchings of Beethoven's notes and handwriting...
Into the dusty little town of Prades, on the slopes of the French Pyrenees, chugged two busloads of string players from Barcelona. Stopping at a small villa where Cellist Pablo Casals is staying, the musicians unlimbered their fiddles and serenaded the master with Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik. Then, one by one, they embraced Casals and boarded the buses for the return trip...
Leading up to it were two works, the Mozart Quintet in F Major, K. 168, and the Quartet No. 2 (1958), of Leon Kirchner. Whereas the Beethoven is obviously a tremendous intellectual challenge to performers, the Mozart is deceptively simple. The Guarneri Quartet, fortunately, was not deceived. The pitfall with this, as with many other Mozart works, is that the player or players will not make the most of the symmetry of the music, and will turn out aperformance that is drab and uninteresting. While one may argue that the music is overly simple, one must remember that this...
...Kirchner was somewhat disconcerting after the Mozart. This quartet bases its appeal on a thorough-going exploration of the tone-colors one can produce using four stringed instruments. Although the expressiveness of the work is unquestionable, its continuity, or more specificaly its organization in terms of building and climaxes, is often unclear. To be sure, the Quartet's handling of the music emphasized those places in which there was a definite sense of increasing tension followed by release. This was particularly evident in the first movement, and less so in the second and third. The overall performance was in every...
...great many musicians like to think of Brahm's music as short, symmetrical phrases, like the music of Haydn or Mozart. As a result, one often hears a version of Brahms in which the melodies are either blurred or altogether maimed. Seldom is Brahms' musical individuality more forcefully expressed than in his B-Minor Clarinet Quintet, and it is refreshing to hear it played in a way that does not attempt to warp the long melodic lines. The Guarneri String Quartet, in the third concert of its Summer series at Sanders Theatre, with clarinetist Harold Wright, gave a reading...