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...many, bristle-bearded Charles Ives is the most original-even if not the most skillful-of all U.S. composers. One New York critic once called his second piano sonata, Concord Mass. 1840-60, "the greatest music composed by an American." He was writing music with strange, exciting rhythms and polytonal harmonies before Stravinsky and Schonberg...
Violinist Robert Brink had just put his fiddle away after playing Hindemith's Sonata in E at Manhattan's Town Hall, when the Guilet Quartet moved in to play a Hindemith quartet. Next night, in Carnegie Hall, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra marched through his Symphony in E Flat; three blocks away, Ballet Society danced The Four Temperaments-music by Hindemith. Next night, in Carnegie Hall, George Szell put his Cleveland Orchestra through Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber. The critics, who usually find Hindemith dry as toast, found his Metamorphosis gay and charming. In Boston...
Bartó:k: Violin Sonata No. 2-Roumanian Dances (Tossy Spivakovsky, violin; Artur Balsam, piano; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Bartok had just made his final break with musical orthodoxy when he wrote this sonata (1922). Violinist Spivakovsky is the man whose brilliant playing recently set San Francisco talking about Bartok's music (TIME, Jan. 26). Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...Franck: Sonata in A Major (Zino Francescatti, violin; Robert Casadesus, piano; Columbia, 8 sides). One of the most fiery and exciting performances on records of one of Franck's best works. Recording: excellent...
...afternoon that San Franciscans were cheering the Bartók concerto, Yehudi Menuhin invited Manhattan critics to his Park Avenue apartment. Yehudi, dressed in a slack suit and bedroom slippers, wanted them to hear again a Bartók composition they had frowned on three years ago: a powerful sonata for unaccompanied violin which Bartók had written for Yehudi. Yehudi was going to play it again this week, and this time wanted the critics to be prepared. Bartok, hearing Yehudi play one of his compositions two years before he died, told him: "I thought works were only played...