Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Heifetz and Feuermann with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy (Album M-815). The Double Concerto was Brahms' last essay in the symphonic form. After finishing it he turned back finally and for good to the smaller forms in which he seemed to be more at home, the chamber sonata, the song, and the piano lyric. And I don't think that I am reading things into the music when I say that the Double Concerto has about it a sort of tiredness with the orchestral medium. Even more than in his other works, one senses a continued striving to meet...
Walter Piston: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Louis Krasner and the composer; Columbia; 4 sides; $2.50). Boston Atonalist Piston writes with his head only. For modern music's strong-man violinist Krasner (TiME, Dec. 16), Piston's mental calisthenics are grammar-grade stuff...
...work, can make his mouth organ sound like a violin, oboe, French horn, trumpet. In this week's CBS show-Lip Service, on Norman Corwin's Workshop hour-he is an appallingly corny hillbilly who imitates the sounds of a train, swings part of a Mozart violin sonata, plays Bach and variations on Turkey in the Straw...
...Einstein played a simple program sitting down: two movements of a Mozart sonata, an Indian song and a "Russian Dance" by Frida S. Bucky, a Bach minuet for an encore. His able accompanist-pretty Mme. Gaby Casadesus, wife of Concert Pianist Robert Casadesus (unpronounceable, rhymes roughly with "has a canoe")-rippled discreetly at the piano. Dr. Einstein proved that he could play a slow melody with feeling, turn a trill with elegance, jigsaw on occasion. The audience applauded warmly. Fiddler Einstein smiled his broad and gentle smile, glanced at his watch in fourth-dimensional worriment, played his encore, peered...
Musicraft's "Masterpiece" records, competently performed and well recorded, are largely familiar: the Schubert Serenade, the Brahms Lullaby, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, etc. What makes them notable is that they are sold in drug and chainstores. Musicraft's Vice President Paul Puner began experimentally in Manhattan last September, by last week had his platters in 800 stores throughout the land-with sales topping 50,000 a week. Last week Musicraft made a deal with a promoter (anonymous) to sell at least 1,200,000 Masterpiece discs next year in credit furniture and jewelry stores. The records will...