Word: sinfonietta
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beat of the Master. He took with him a knowledge of symphonic conducting based on a careful study of every flick of Toscanini's baton. After Wallenstein was appointed musical director of Station WOR, discriminating listeners began to notice a Toscanini polish and precision in WOR's Sinfonietta. Even today Alfred Wallenstein, with a passion for clarity and neatness and a curious paddling beat, conducts like a carbon copy of Arturo Toscanini...
Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto in C Major for Organ and Strings (Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta with E. Power Biggs, Victor; 4 sides). Suave, serene, 17th-Century classicism by the earliest of all great violinists (also a composer of parts). Corelli's original has been touched up by Italy's contemporary G. Francesco Malipiero...
...quartets, to which the recording by the Coolidge Quartet (Album M-745) does full justice. . . . Also of a genial and unpretentious nature is the Corelli Concerto Grosso No. 11 in B-Flat, in dance suite form, recorded on a single Victor record (No. 12587) by Arthur Fiedler and his Sinfonietta. The finding of this concerto by the scholarly efforts of Mr. Fiedler is typical of the great practical service of musicologists like him who every year rescue so much lost music from the forgotten bowels of museums. Musicological research unearthed the William Boyce Symphonies, the Miniature Suite by John Christopher...
...series of concerts at the Germanic Museum continues next Monday evening with a concert of harp and organ music, played by the eminent French harpist, Marcel Grandjany, E. Power Biggs at the organ, and the Fiedler Sinfonietta conducted by Arthur Fiedler. The program is an extraordinarily interesting one, including a Handel harp concerto, a new Poulenc organ concerto, and some harp and organ music by Grandjany himself...
...organ concerto, is to me one of the seven wonders. In the latest in the Victor series of Handel organ concertos, the Cuckoo and the Nightingale Concerto, Album M733 he plays most delightfully on the Baroque organ of the Germanic Museum to a spirited accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta. The concerto itself is a delightful one, and the whole album as successful a combination of Biggs, Victor, and Handel, as has yet appeared....Anyone who is revolted, as I am, by Stokowski's lurid transcriptions and feverish performances of Bach may be glad to hear that there is still...