Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...performance last night was warm but not Romantic, perfectly intonated, and technically amazing. When the second voice entered in the Fuga of the opening Sonata, a breathless incredulity came over every listener. In the Presto of the Partita in B Minor, his fingers literally clicked over the strings, picking out every sixteenth note, even giving each a slight vibrate. Loveliest of all was the Andante of the last work. Schneider never overdid the sentiment, and the steady beat of the pedal point through the melody held the music to a moving, but ever-calm reserve...
Alexander Schneider, violinist, will bring a program of Bach to Sanders Theater at 8:30 tonight. Schneider will play the Sonata in G minor, the Partita in B minor, and the Sonata in A minor, all scored for single violin...
...Brahms: Sonata No. 3 in D Minor (Mischa Elman, violinist, Wolfgang Rosé, pianist; Victor, 6 sides). Both Menuhin and Szigeti have performed this more brilliantly. Recording: fair...
Command performances were agony. Once, playing before Portugal's Queen Amalia, Bauer found the court piano in such bad shape that half the keys stuck. At the Spanish court he had to struggle through a Beethoven sonata while twelve-year-old Alfonso XIII romped about him, and the Infanta Isabella chattered all the way through the piece ("How like Wagner . . . This reminds me of Chopin...
...Ives: Sonata No. 2, "Concord" (John Kirkpatrick, pianist; Columbia, 9 sides). Written around 1913 by the long "forgotten" U.S. composer who is a recluse in Connecticut, this sonata, has been called "the greatest music composed by an American," which is neither true nor saying so much as it seems to. Listeners will find it hard digging at first, but there is gold there. The performance is better than the dull recording...