Word: sonata
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...technical discipline since Bach. His pellucid textures are never subjected to the spoilage of superfluity but rather to an intensely self-conscious merging of the intoxication of original inspiration with master-craftsmanship. The Octet reflects this Master's modality of intellectual fervor and artistic vigilance. In its investigation of sonata form it also reflects his consciousness of the equal need for innovation and universality, by the light of living tradition. The Ensemble under the direction of conductor James Walker played absolutely splendidly, especially in the variation movement...
...those moments that every performer dreads. Pianist Vladimir Horowitz was halfway through Rachmaninoff's Sonata in B-Flat at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. And then-poing!-the sound of string #17 (bass A-note) giving way on the Steinway concert grand. An embarrassed unease settled over the hall while a technician frantically made repairs. Finally, Horowitz completed the piece and responded to the thunderous ovation with four encores. Said the famed firm's president, Henry Z. Steinway: "Each time this happens I want to crawl into the woodwork." Soothed Horowitz: "It's like a flat tire...
...equipment is just right for Chopin. He has a powerful and precise technique, a gift for tracing long, soaring lines out of detailed figurations, and an innately tasteful musicality that spurns either maudlin moonbeams or brittle bravura. He puts it all to work in the Byronic B-Minor Third Sonata, playing with dash, sweep and refined lyricism. His performance of the Second, in B-flat minor, offers something more. Although not the performance of a mellow master like Rubinstein, it displays a subtle feeling for the shifting, subterranean currents of Chopin's emotion. There is an urgency...
...Violin Concerto was the culmination of this search to reconcile modality and tonality, impressionism and germanic form. His Violin Concerto displays three of his leading characteristics: efflorescent harmonic textures, generative rhythms, and his own cyclical sonata-allegro form. The Concerto requires superb understanding of its organic interrelations as well as the ability to switch from intense but strictly controlled lyricism to propulsive technics...
...scene that Godard has ever filmed-is only the beginning. During the couple's repeatedly interrupted trip, which lasts for the rest of the movie, wrecked autos, hideously dismembered bodies and senseless violence meet them at every turn. There are a few irrelevant respites, such as a Mozart sonata on the sound track while the camera pans around a farm at sunset, and a couple of overlong political harangues on black revolution and the war in the Mid dle East. But always the film turns back to the violence-on the road and off it-that everyone begins...