Word: scherzo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...with folksy, jazzy elements. This results in coherent outlines that form the rich and varied content of the works. The reliance on structure can backfire, though, and the final section of his Introduction Chorale, Preclued, and Fugue was weighted down with dry academics. For an encore Davison played the scherzo from his violin sonata, music full of motion and vitality. Revitt made up for his earlier lapses with a sensitive, rhymically vibrant performance...
...most of its 120 minutes brim over with intense emotion. After an orchestral introduction, a choral recitative marks out the plot, and the first movement ends with what seems to be a rather static version of the famous balcony scene. The second movement has the familiar "Queen Maud Scherzo" and the final section describes the death of the lovers, and the reconciliation of the warring houses...
...Westminster Ninth is led by Vienna's Hermann Scherchen. a more academic conductor; his tempos are sedate, his accents concise. The orchestra of the Vienna State Opera, soloists, and the Vienna Singakademie play and sing accurately, if not thrillingly, and have been recorded with striking clarity (in the scherzo, the kettle drums go off like pistol shots). This set, like Victor's, includes Beethoven's Symphony No. I on the fourth side...
...performance of the rarely played Opus 74, turned attention to the structure of the music itself, which represents several typical Beethoven deviations from traditional form. The scherzo proper, although in the usual binary form, has two sections of completely disproportionate length. The performers chose to omit the usual repeat of the longer section because of its length and the movement's repetitive character, thus subjecting the form to a still greater deviation...
...scherzo there were a few false starts, and each time Munch followed the same pattern: a pause, a violent gesture, and a grunt--then the theme...