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BEETHOVEN: QUARTET IN A MINOR OPUS 132 (RCA Victor). This intricate work was written 25 years after the septet and sounds a world apart, especially in this crisp, exact performance by the Juilliard String Quartet. Technically, the Juilliard is superb; the pianissimo passages, for example, are feather-light and still warm, but the third movement, the "song of thanksgiving offered to the divinity by a convalescent," sounds curiously reserved...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Jul. 2, 1965 | 7/2/1965 | See Source »

...played attentively. They thundered when the occasion demanded, or played under the chorus's pianissimo, which was very soft, Randall Thompson's orchestrations are more or less routine work for instrumentalists; the strings played what they had well, the wind solos were good, but not always exactly in tune...

Author: By Jsaiah Jackson, | Title: Randall Thompson | 4/27/1965 | See Source »

Many voices are impressive at one dynamic level and not at another. But here was a voice of supreme quality throughout all gradations, from full-bodied fortissimo down to a barely audible pianissimo. My evaluation was hardly unique, and Price's performance won him the Theatre World Award. (Unfortunately, the recording of the show was a limited special edition and is not commercially available...

Author: By Caldwell Titcomb, | Title: Gilbert Price--Velvet on His Voice | 4/1/1965 | See Source »

...have seldom heard a chorus sing so unanimously. Technical details were executed to a man, providing in a song such as "I'll Go to the Valley" a pianissimo that Verdi would have been jealous of. When the director called for lightness, they sang like five men instead of fifty; when he called for force, they bowled the audience over...

Author: By Isaiah Jackson, | Title: Yale Russian Chorus | 2/23/1965 | See Source »

...dynamics for all the works on the program. In "Deutsches Magnificat," by Heinrich Schutz, he established a different mood for each phrase, and built up a gradual, carefully controlled crescendo for the piece's final cadence. Forbes made Hans Hassler's distressful, chromatic motet very convincing with sudden pianissimo phrases; the words were never blurred when the chorus sang softly...

Author: By John A. Rice, | Title: Glee Club Spring Concert | 4/27/1964 | See Source »

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