Word: scherzo
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...Town Hall outside London with the New Philharmonia and a reissue of the same symphony recorded in 1927 when he led the Philadelphia Orchestra. Both readings are dramatic, reflecting the vigorous personality of the conductor. The new recording differs chiefly in tempo. Even with two repeats omitted in the Scherzo movement, the symphony runs some 5½ minutes longer, with a tediously extended line in the Largo. The last movement brims with robust cheer...
...will stand to in a month." Yet Rounds delivers his delicate and dazzling "Queen Mab" aria in a leaden manner, with lots of pauses. Vivace has become andante. I've said before--and I repeat--that the best guide here is the Queen Mab vocal scherzetto and orchestral scherzo from Berlioz's symphony. Furthermore, for a man who revels so in words, Mercutio should know that "lamentable" is accented on the first syllable. It is a clever idea, though, for his dying curse--"A plague a' both your houses!"--to be treated as an ironic toast, with a raised glass...
Music for brass quintet. Ewald: Symphony for Brass; Cheetham: Scherzo. Free. Friday, April...
...Variations since Rachmaninoff omitted variations 15-18, 20 and 21 to squeeze the work onto two sides of a single 78 r.p.m. record. There are the myriad piano transcriptions that Rachmaninoff wrote for recital encores, notably the Prelude from Bach's Violin Partita in E and the Scherzo from Men delssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. There is the finest recording ever made of Schumann's Carnaval, astonishingly warm and realistic in sound quality despite its 1929 vintage. Rachmaninoff the conductor is also represented, leading the Philadelphia in effective readings of his soulful Third Symphony...
Chopin (Gary Graffman in a selected re cital including the Ballade No. 1 in G Minor, Scherzo No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Andante Spianato and Grande Polo naise, Columbia; $5.98). Celebrating 25 years on the concert stage and still young at 44, Graffman gives a spirited performance infused with the authority of a master. Most revealing of all, perhaps, are the little pieces whose shift ing eminences of light and shade are as carefully traced and polished as the face of a fine jewel...