Word: quadri
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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PINES OF ROME (Respighi): Argeo Quadri conducting Vienna State Opera Orchestra...
...style for years to come for the Concerto Grosso. Yet, like all great composers, Corelli avoided a dogmatic conception of musical form, and within the twelve concerti of Opus 6 there are twelve different variations on the general slow-fast-slow-fast and fast-slow-fast shapes. Quadri elicits a lovely shimmering string tone from the English Baroque Orchestra. (Westminster...
Observer McCarthy early admits that in Venice, appearance is reality: "The tourist Venice is Venice: the gondolas, the sunsets, the changing light, Florian's, Quadri's, Torcello, Harry's Bar, Murano, Burano, the pigeons, the glass beads, the vaporetto. Venice is a folding picture-postcard of itself." But Tourist McCarthy is no ordinary tourist. Whether she is discussing the merits of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese, Bellini, Giorgione, or building up a rare head of social protest steam over the teen-age slaveys whose eyes are being ruined in the lace factory at Burano, her reflections bear the stamp...
Revueltas: Sensemayá (London Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Argeo Quadri; Westminster). Composer Revueltas was a tragically short-lived Mexican (1899-1940) who wrote a few large and richly tinted works. This one is a fascinating, grunting, growling number that sounds like a bolero by Tarzan in bobbing ⅞ time. It is presented in Westminster's hi-fi "Laboratory Series," wrapped in a fancy plastic zipper bag, and accompanied by a second-by-second description that is good for testing ears and playback equipment. The disk includes Soviet Modernist Mossolov's once notorious Iron Foundry...
Donizetti: Don Pasquale (Lina Aymaro, Melchiore Luise, Scipio Colombo Juan Oncina; Vienna Chamber Chorus and State Opera Orchestra conducted by Argeo Quadri; Westminster, 2 LPs). This was Donizetti's 63rd opera, and it is a charmer with a quenchless flow of melody and fun involving the usual opéra bouffe case of mistaken identity. Beautifully sung and played, and resonantly recorded...