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...solo performances are planned for the weekend. Byron Janis will perform Rachmaninoff's Third Piano Concerto and Zino Francescatti will be soloist in Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto...
...orchestra had never played the work, and Richter had only one hour's rehearsal with the Philadelphia musicians before going on. But orchestra and soloist sailed through the piece with astonishing rapport, immediately sensed by the audience. "All the time," said Conductor Eugene Ormandy, "electricity was flowing back and forth." Richter gave Prokofiev's tongue-in-cheek score a kaleidoscopic range, resisted the temptation to lushness in the concerto's lyrical passages or to percussive effects in its driving climax. "He tossed it off," said the Philadelphia's awed Concertmaster Jacob Krachmalnick, "like walking through...
Unfortunately for those who are fond of nostalgia, the show was stolen by soloist Charles Forbes with a virtuosic performance of the Haydn Cello Concerto, but there was much else to recommend itself...
Slim, tweedy Composer Imbrie worked intermittently on his concerto for four years, completed it in 1954. As performed last week by the San Francisco Symphony, with Robert Gross as violin soloist, it proved to be a propulsive, clamorous virtuoso work in both twelve-tone and traditional diatonic idioms, with its limber solo line woven through the big sonorities of the orchestra in a stirringly unfolding tapestry of sound. The first movement, in alternating slow and fast tempi, built to its main climax by echoing the solo violin nights with orchestral figurations set at closer and closer intervals. By turns...
Great Ideas of Western Mann (Herbie Mann's Californians; Riverside). Flutist Mann abandons his favorite instrument for one of the least likely of solo instruments-the bass clarinet. The fudge-thick sound has a wistful, funky charm, but often Soloist Mann evokes a fat man in a conga line...