Word: music
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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WEBERN: Complete Works (Columbia K4L-232). The brief, vital lifework of one of the pivotal figures of 20th century music, conducted by Robert Craft...
SCHUBERT: String Quartets Nos. 13, 14 and 15 (Columbia ML 4831/2/3); HAYDN: Six Quartets, Op. 76 (Columbia ML 4922/3/4). Masterpieces of chamber music performed by the elegant Budapest Quartet...
...nine players present a well-balanced, impeccably performed concert of Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Poulenc, Villa-Lobos, Alexei Haieff, and the young American, Michael Colgrass. Having done so, they then upstage themselves by turning the fourth disk of the album over to a delightful discussion of chamber music by Peter Ustinov. "A Walter Mitty as far as music is concerned," Ustinov gives his imitations of a flute ("With my long, pendulous upper lip, I do better without the flute") and bassoon ("a very romantic instrument"). His musical god is Mozart. Noting that in the composer's day chamber-music playing...
...artist like a prostitute? See Music, Second Fiddle con Brio...
...ebullient, frizzy-haired "Sasha" Schneider is, at 59, a second fiddler the likes of which chamber music has rarely seen. Whirling like a dervish around the fringes of the limelight, he is not only a tireless performer but also an enormously influential catalyst and organizer, teacher and tastemaker. Wherever he goes, music seems to happen around him through a sort of spontaneous combustion...