Word: recitalist
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...rank of the violin and cello as a solo instrument; in Provo, Utah. The Glasgow-born Primrose was a violin prodigy before he switched to the larger viola, with which he felt "a sense of oneness that I never felt when playing the violin." A world-touring solo recitalist, he settled in the U.S. in 1937 and became first viola of the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini. Later known for his performances of chamber music, he also worked with contemporary composers, commissioning and playing the first performance of the Bartók Viola Concerto...
...generations ago. Several past notable violinists include Jose White (1833-1920), who was a concerto soloist with the New York Philharmonic more than once in the 1870s; Joseph Douglass (1869-1935), grandson of the legendary Frederick Douglass and the first Black violinist to tour the United States as a recitalist; and Clarence Cameron White (1880-1960), who was active as a composer in addition to his concertizing...
...after having earned a solid reputation as a recitalist in European cities, Ponti broke into recording in a characteristically lavish way. Vox Records wanted to record what seemed like the whole of the romantic piano literature and asked Ponti to be the performer. Since then he has made 25 LPs, including the complete piano music of Tchaikovsky, and is now working on Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. Largely as a result of this extensive background, he now has enough solo pieces in his head to turn out a six-hour nonstop recital. In addition, he can play any of 50 concertos...
...also his undoing: in his last years as a recitalist he took to playing up to the ladies in the audience, leaving them tearful with languid, fatalistic little tunes like The Dying Poet and The Last Hope. When he died,* that is the way the world remembered and then forgot him-as an adorable miniaturist...
...bring to Debussy; an excellent stereo rechanneling of the album that launched Gould's recording career 13 years ago, the Goldberg Variations ("In those days, my tempi were souped up and rather breakneck"); and a conversation LP in which he admits that his nine years as a recitalist were "rather unpleasant, rather traumatic." In the time since, Gould says that he has had "four of the best years of my life." It hasn't been bad for his record fans, either...