Word: rondo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mozart: Rondo in A Minor, K. 511 (Guiomar Novaès, piano; Vox). One of the remarkable compositions of Mozart's last years, this rondo spaces out a pretty, parlor-music theme with unusual interludes of poignance and even tragedy. Brazilian Pianist Novaès plays it (and three sonatas) with warmth and strength...
...Other such unusual compositions: Vaughan Williams' own Romance jor Harmonica and Orchestra, Serse Koussevitzky's Concerto for Double Bass, Jaromir Weinberger's Concerto for timpani, with four trumpets and four trombones, Mozart's Adagio and Rondo for glass harmonica, flute, oboe, viola and cello...
...recital itself, said Biggs, was "a sort of compromise program: Handel, because after all he's buried here, Bach, then Daquin and Soler [both 18th century] for the traditionalists, Hindemith, Jehan Alain, a young French composer who was killed in World War II, finishing up with the Rondo from the Symphony in G by Leo Sowerby. Something for everyone, in fact." But not everyone in his audience approved. Playing with precise tranquillity, Biggs went through the program without ever playing full organ. The British, despite their reputation for restraint, like their organ music romantic and thunderous; Biggsie...
...does not shy away from Romantic lushness in developing the broad melodic line which opens the first movement. And there are passages of absolute clarity, such as the unaccompanied unison of piano and plucked celli, for purposes of contrast or emphasis. The third movement is a clever seven-part rondo, the theme of which is an anagrammatic treatment of Miss Besser's name ("S" being the German designation for E flat, and "R" representing rc, or D). The theme appears in several guises, bandied about by piano and orchestra until the powerful inevitable climax. While the piano part does...
Schuman's G-Minor Sonata gave her the opportunity to display her considerable technical powers. Despite the composer's maddening instructions ("As fast as possible," he demands at one point in the Rondo, and, a few measures afterwards, "still faster"), the sudden fortissimo outbursts, fast octave scales, and other bravura passages rattled along without mishap. And while Beethoven's Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance Tune may lack profundity and grandeur, they are good, clean fun and Miss Drooker made the most of them. Her elastic, but consistent phrasing gave logic to the variations, without binding them in a formalistic...