Word: paganini
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While Chicago was triple-billing soloists, California's Mills College double-billed the famed Budapest and Paganini String Quartets. First it was the Budapest's turn, with Darius Milhaud's new, dryly dissonant Quartet No. 14. That over, the Budapest retired, and the Paganini played Milhaud's more melodic Quartet No. 15. Then, while chamber-music lovers waited uneasily, the Budapest returned, sat down alongside the Paganini, and the eight players played the two quartets simultaneously. The result: critics found it a superb feat of musicianship, but most listeners looked as if they were hearing...
...Paganini String Quartet; Victor, 6 sides). Robert Maas, onetime cellist with the famed Pro Arte Quartet, founded the crack Paganini Quartet three years ago. In this recording, the last one made before his death, he has left the most finished performance on records of Beethoven's passionate early quartet. Recording: excellent...
Last week, for the first time, Manhattan critics got to hear Koussy's wonder boy. For his Town Hall debut, Norman's program was by no means all apple pie: a Handel sonata, a Bach partita for unaccompanied violin, two difficult Paganini caprices. By the time he was halfway through the Handel, critics were wondering at the sureness of his phrasing and rhythmic pulse. When he had finished with the Paganinis and a blazing performance of Sarasate's tricky Zigeunerweisen, there was no question about the finish of his technique. Twenty-year-old Norman Carol was more...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Seymour Lipkin playing Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini...
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 (the Paganini Quartet; Victor, 6 sides). Here, in Beethoven's last great quartet, is the kind of music that Pianist Artur Schnabel describes as "better than it can be played." The Paganini Quartet version is almost the equal of the old Budapest String Quartet performance; the recording is much better...