Word: soloists
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...concert concluded with Mozart's D-minor Piano Concerto, K. 466, surely his finest contribution to the medium. This is a work of tragic import, until the last pages of the rondo almost turn it into a gay ensemble from an opera buffa. The piano soloist was Kenneth McIntosh, who, versatile trouper that he is, played the French horn before the intermission. He approached the concerto with uncommon intelligence, and showed that he knew when the piano writing was mere accompanimental figuration for the orchestra, a feature many professionals would do well to note. His playing was effortless, unmannered...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 9105 p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy conducting; Robert Casadesus, soloist...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Soloist: Violinist Isaac Stern playing Prokofiev's Second Concerto...
Concernmaster During most of the season Richard Burgin, 64, sits unobtrusively at the violin section's first desk of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, as he has for the past 36 years. At the end of a performance the conductor or guest soloist will shake his hand; if the guest happens to be someone as impulsive as Leonard Bernstein, he may even kiss his cheeks. For the rest, the concertmaster's job is done out of the public view, preparing the violins for the effects the conductor wants, marking the bowings, in general setting the tone of the orchestra...
Boston Symphony, scarcely letting us recover from last week's magnificent bombast, will pit two Englishmen--Britten and Walton--against a German, Beethoven, who has written a Pastoral Symphony. Gregor Piatigorsky, cello soloist. At 2:15 p.m. today, 8:30 p.m. tomorrow...