Word: sonata
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...audience could have expected a higher standard of performance than it was given. It is hard enough to gain a clear impression of a modern work at first hearing and a faulty performance makes it virtually impossible. Joel Mandelbaum's songs were given a wholly inadequate performance and the Sonata of Peter Westergaard suffered from a listless rendition of the violin part...
...Busoni: Sonata No. 2 (Richard Burgin, violin; Edward Weiss, piano; Circle). A massive and powerful work that seems younger than its 53 years. It is free of the flowery passage work of Busoni's famous piano transcriptions, but never dissonant in the modern sense. It is excellently performed by the Boston Symphony's concertmaster and a pupil of the composer...
...Mozart: Sonata in B Flat, K. 570 (Ralph Kirkpatrick, pianist; Bartok). A virtuoso performance on a reconstructed 18th century piano. Kirkpatrick coaxes fine-grained inflections out of the instrument's wiry pianissimos, makes its loud notes sound almost like those of a solid modern piano...
...Chopin's Sonata in B Minor gave Beyer a chance to display his virtuosity. Except for the final movement, the Sonata is not Chopin at his best, but it is full of complicated runs and octave passages, which Beyer handled impressively...
...corelli concerti were only slightly less unpressive than the Handel, largely because they were eclipsed by the vutnese pertormance ruth Posselt gave to Corelli's A major violin sonata. Her flawless rendition of a breath taking perpetua mobile-type movement as well as her scrupulously clean articulation all evening again marked her as a technician of the highest order and her interpretations were colorful and exciting though never lacking in taste...