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...Minor, K. 491, with strength and tenderness; Conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler, making the Vienna Philharmonic perform with the best in Beethoven's Symphony No. 7, Schubert's Unfinished and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor; Violinist Yehudi Menuhin at his dazzling peak in Paganini's popular, pyrotechnical Concerto...
Beethoven: Quartets Op. 131 and Op. 59, Nos. 1, 2 and, 3 (the Pascal String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides LP). Distinguished performances of one of the great "last" quartets and of the three "Rasoumovsky" quartets from Beethoven's middle years. The Paganini Quartet, playing with a more refined tone, offers an equally distinguished performance of the superb Quartet Op. 132 (Victor, 2 sides LP). Recordings: good...
...moonfaced youngster marched onstage in Carnegie Hall with the self-assurance of a veteran. He gave the audience a confident smile, then signaled Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos to launch the New York Philharmonic-Symphony into the Paganini Concerto No. 1. From his first bow strokes, 15-year-old Michael Rabin proved he had something to be confident about. His technique was effortless, his tone strong and clean, his style and phrasing in the brilliant manner of Heifetz and Isaac Stern...
...typical program last week, the Budapest played Mozart, Brahms and Debussy for 3,300 fans in Chicago's North Shore Ravinia Park. The audience had its share of highbrows, but scattered on the lawn near the stage were hundreds of seriously attentive youngsters. Other quartets, e.g., the Paganini, Pro Arte, Griller and Juilliard, fiddle for equally enthusiastic audiences from Fond du Lac to Fort Worth...
...Elsewhere" means occasional oboe performances with chamber orchestras, dates with the Budapest (see above) or Paganini quartets, rare chamber music soirees at friends' apartments in Manhattan...