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...completeness in your Music department? You claim to "note the noteworthy" in record releases. Yet in your July 4 issue, you fail to mention the Franck Sonata in A Major for piano and violin, superlatively played by Rubinstein and Heifetz...
...Fine Arts is still showing "The Moonlight Sonata," an ocacsional en- picture built about the magnificent playing of Paderwski. That this is more of a recital than a movie is a point in its favor...
Preliminaries consisted of two rounds held in the Concert Hall of the Brussels Conservatoire Royal de Musique. First round: 1) a major composition by Johann Sebastian Bach; 2) Scarlatti's Sonata No. 461 in D Major; 3) a sonata chosen by the candidate. When the first round was over, twelve nations, including the U. S., had bitten the dust. The judges were wiping their foreheads, professional critics were well wilted. But stately, sad-eyed Queen Elisabeth, in her royal box, had listened unflinchingly to 88 consecutive performances of Scarlatti's Sonata. Among the 19 survivors of Round...
...BRAHMS: SONATA No. 3, IN D MINOR. FOR VIOLIN & PIANO (Joseph Szigeti and Egon Petri; Columbia: 6 sides). An unbeatable sonata team plays a great and proverbially difficult work superbly...
...MOZART : SONATA IN D MAJOR FOR TWO PIANOS (K. 381), and CLEMENTI: SONATA No. 1 IN B FLAT MAJOR FOR Two PIANOS (Grace Castagnetta and Milton Kaye; Timely Recording Co., 1600 Broadway, Manhattan: 6 sides). Mozart has been recorded by bigger names, but seldom as well. Clementi, Mozart's contemporary, has been added for contrast...