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Last week's program started off with Trio for flute, viola and cello by 20th Century French Composer Albert Roussel, continued with a Bach sonata for the solo flute, and finished with English Composer William Walton's Facade, scored for seven instruments and a poetry reciter (Actress Jane Wyatt reading Edith Sitwell). The program noted with pride that Facade (composed in 1922) was getting its Los Angeles premiere...
...Brahms: Sonata No. 3 In D Minor, Op. 108 (Jascha Heifetz, violin; William Kapell, piano; Victor, 2 sides LP). Two fine talents give a touching and exciting performance of a late (1888) work. Recording : good...
Oistrakh proved to his hearers that the rating was deserved. He warmed up with Mozart's Sonata in B Flat Major (K.454), concluded the first half of the program with a faultless performance of Prokofiev's poetic Sonata in B Flat. Oistrakh conquered the most difficult passages with effortless technique, played with such feeling and clarity that the audience cheered him back for six curtain calls...
...first preliminaries, there was little doubt among spectators or judges (among them: Violinist Jacques Thibaud, Oistrakh himself) as to the winner. Leonid Kogan, 26, native of Dnepropetrovsk, sounded brilliantly above the rest. But all four Russian entrants were among the twelve who survived the first high hurdles -a Bach sonata, a sonata by Ysaÿe, the great Belgian violinist (1858-1931), two concertos and six pieces of the contestants' choosing...
...Berg: Sonata, Op. 1 (Benjamin Tupas, pianist; Lyrichord, 1 side LP). This early work, composed a dozen years before Wozzeck, is full of powerful expressiveness without the contorted effects that came later. Well played by a young Filipino pianist. Recording: good...