Word: scherzo
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...Boston Symphony Orchestra, under guest conductor Andrew Davis, performs two American works and a Strauss tone-poem tonight, tomorrow, Saturday and Tuesday at Symphony Hall. Davis, Music Director of the Toronto Symphony, will conduct the scherzo "Over the Pavements" by Charles Ives, "Before the Butterfly" by Morton Subotnick and "Ein Heldenleben" by Richard Strauss. The concerts are at 8 pm except for tomorrow's, which...
...Quintet in C major (Melos Quartet, Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich; Deutsche Grammophon). This is a near-perfect recording of Schubert's greatest chamber work. The playing and the balance between instruments are all but flaw less; Rostropovich's singing bass line is outstanding, and the gay third movement scherzo is joyous as a Highland fling...
...approval and with everybody's disapproval." Far from punishing her, Balanchine continued to give Gelsey the run of City Ballet's unparalleled repertory. She danced lead roles in his Symphony in C, "Rubies" in Jewels, Harlequinade and Concerto Barocco and in Robbins' Dances at a Gathering, Goldberg Variations and Scherzo Fantastique. She became a stellar member of one of the world's great companies...
...this landscape of rich melody and subtly changing orchestral color. The warm, spacious performance by Giulini would be a winner at almost any time. Right now, however, it comes up against Davis and the Concertgebouw in one of their most electrifying collaborations. The lilting Czech dance rhythms in the Scherzo, for example, have the kind of freedom and spontaneity one would expect from a string quartet...
...musical forms go, the Baroque suite or partita was in its old age when Bach decided to have the final word on the subject. He not only included every kind of dance movement previously used (saraband, gigue, minuet) but also introduced some that had not been: capriccio, rondeau and scherzo. The French style of ornamentation, so essential a part of this music, is something Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis has long since mastered. His mordents, appoggiaturas and other embellishments have the ring not of frivolity but, as is proper, indispensability. The overall interpretations have a breadth and power not often encountered...