Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Luise Vosgerchian in the Two Pieces for Piano by David Johnson and three movements from the Five Pieces for Piano of William Valente. These two works contrast in the same manner as the string pieces: Valente absorbs himself with motivic variation, Johnson with stormy declamation. A third work, the Sonata for Violin and Piano of James Walker, is close to Johnson, if with more reserve, for both possess a nostalgia like the piano (not the better-known music) of Aaron Copland. Finally, the sentimental harmony and florid lines of the traditional song style appear in the Three Songs of James...
...Conversation. The first première, a Sonata for Clarinet and Piano, played by Benny Goodman and Leonard Bernstein, had the misfortune of being the marquee come-on for an all-Poulenc concert that included some vintage works-the beautiful Fiançailles pour Rire song cycle, the lovely a cappella Motets. The sonata's first movement is nervously melodic, the second drowsily romantic, the third merely gymnastic; nowhere does the music lead the two instruments into the tense conversation the form requires. The piano simply accompanies the clarinet, as in a coloratura song, and the clarinet does little...
...through all the rest of his career, he never abandoned his own highly idiomatic voice: Ravel envied him for knowing how to speak "his own folklore." And if the Sept Répons was born of his faith in God, as his friends believe, then his Sonata may well be nothing more than a strange man's tribute to the likes of Benny Goodman...
Oistrakh (Monitor) presents David Oistrakh and his son, Igor, in a good collection of works for virtuosi violins: Haydn's Duo in B Flat, Prokofiev's Sonata for Two Violins, Honegger's Sonatina, and Louis Spohr's Duetto II in D Major. The Oistrakhs play magnificently...
Guest artist Victor Rosenbaum, one of the outstanding pianists of the younger generation, will perform the Mozart Sonata in E-Flat, K. 282; the Beethoven Sonata in E-Major, Op. 109; the Schubert Sonata in A-Minor, Op. 42; and the Webern Plane Variations...