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...awards for musical achievement go to a junior and a senior. Martin Boykan '51 won the George Arthur Knight prize for a string quartet and Carlos C. Spies '50 the Bohemian Club prize for a sonata for two planos. Both are income from funds...
...Sonatas for Unaccompanied Violin. music seems to grow leaner with the yeas. between two excellent performances of the superb Sonata No. 1, Alexander Schneider's (Mercury, 1 side LP) is for those who prefer a hardness of tone and a rather blunt forthrightness; Tossy Spivakovsky (Columbia, 1 side LP) plays with more beauty of tone and slightly softer phrasing. Violinist Joseph Szigeti (Columbia, 1 side LP) has no competition in his performance of Sonata No. 5 (or, on the other side, in the Concerto No. 1, with the New Friends of Music Orchestra, Fritz Stiedry conducting). Recordings: good...
...Bartok: Sonata for Violin Solo (Yehudi Menuhin, violinist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.). Few composers since Bach have been able to write successful sonatas for solo violin. Bartok did, a year before his death in 1945, and Menuhin proves it. Recording: excellent...
Works to be performed include Paul Hindemith's Abendkonzert: Trio fur Blockfloten, Frederic Chopin's Nocturne in G Minor, George Philip Telemann's Four Songs from Ausewahite Lieder, Alessandre Scarlatti's Sonata a Guettro, and the Trio Sonata in D by Johann Joachim Guautz. Twelve 'Cliffe students will participate in the program...
Beethoven: Sonata No. 7, Op. 30 No. 2 (Joseph Szigeti, violin; Mieczyslaw Horszowski, piano; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Violinist Szigeti's expressiveness and devoted musicianship go a long way towards making up for his often raspy tone-far enough in fact to make this an excellent performance. Recording: good...