Word: scherzo
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...first recordings of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, three Debussy Preludes, Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 and two Etudes (Columbia), Horowitz plays with heart on sleeve, spinning out a range of emotion beyond his earlier reach. His rapport with Chopin and Debussy is especially strong, but he plays Beethoven with glee and understanding...
...been followed by Folk Songsters Peter, Paul and Mary conducting 13,934 folkniks into collective rapture. One night jazz holds court, with Duke Ellington and Ella Fitzgerald; another night the classical reigns, as that 20th century master Igor Stravinsky conducts his own Petrouchka suite, the Two Little Suites and Scherzo a La Russe. To add the final touch of diversity, the New York City Ballet will appear Aug. 6-11, performing two of George Balanchine's latest ballets. The greatest U.S. prima ballerina, Maria Tallchief, has just rejoined the company. ∙ASPEN (June 26-Aug. 25) is the headiest...
Bartok composed the Scherzo when he was 24, entranced by the windy sonorities of Richard Strauss, and he filled the work with rolling Straussian orchestrated sounds. But the scheduled 1905 premiere never took place. At the last moment, Bartok withdrew the Scherzo, because Hans Richter (who was to have led the Budapest Symphony Orchestra, with Bartok at the piano) had not had time to study and annotate the master score and there were many mistakes in copied parts. That same year, Bartok discovered folk music, and his infatuation with Strauss ended abruptly. There were no requests to revive his unplayed...
After his death, in 1945, the Scherzo was found among his papers by his son Bela in Budapest. Today, like all of Bartok's music, it is embroiled in a discordant legal hassle between his heirs and the Manhattan lawyer who is executor of the estate and who has given Pianist Kentner exclusive performance rights to the Scherzo for the next two years...
Though it may sound to some listeners as if it were written to accompany a film, London critics found the Scherzo worthwhile as a backward look into the early output of one of the great spirits of modern music. Said Colin Mason of the Guardian: "Although it is not likely ever to find a place in the repertory, we should hear it a few more times yet to savor its humor and originality before putting it on the shelf as an immature work." As for Pianist Kentner, he thinks the Scherzo for Piano and Orchestra is uneven, but, says...