Word: scherzo
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...Beethoven. Quartet in C major, Op. 59, No. 3. - 2. (a) Tschaikowski. Adagio from second quartet. (b) Cherubini. Scherzo from quartet in E flat. - 3. A. Ritter. Quartet in C minor...
Svendsen. In A minor, Op. 1 Andante and Scherzo...
...Adagio was full of expression and depth, and the brilliant Presto was played with a good deal of fire. The Andante from the Svendsen quartet proved to be the most enjoyable number of the evening. The rendering of it brought out well its romance and passion. The charming Scherzo was at times unevenly played. In the Raff quartet the slow movement was the most successfully rendered. The concert as a whole was a very enjoyable one. The Listemann quartet as now constituted, contains the best players that are to be had. Its only weak point is the second violinist, whose...
...Beethoven. Quartet in E minor, Op. 59, No. 2. - 2. J. Svendsen. Andante and Scherzo from quartet in A minor, Op. 1. - 3. Raff. Quartet in D minor...
...what has been heard before, which contributed not a little to the general. As regards the Eroica, the writer certainly never heard a better performance. So perfectly was the comper's idea expressed that toward the close of the second movement the intensity of feeling became almost painful. The scherzo, following this, makes so much of a contrast that it hardly seems in keeping with the rest of the symphony. The fifth symphony of Beethoven presents a much better example of a consistent whole, resting on a psychological. In it the name scherzo, is omitted from the third movement, which...