Word: sonatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Recent soloist with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Mrs. Luise Vosgerchian will conclude the program with a performance of the composer's "Third Piano Sonata...
...TIME'S critic listen again before passing judgment on one of Brahms's last and most mature works, the Second Clarinet Sonata [TIME, Nov. 25]. Far from banality, this, the greatest of all clarinet sonatas, has the warmth and depth that only a Brahms could give to Romantic music...
...limited quantities, and the flow is expected to increase. Briggs and Briggs has on hand a few copies of some Cetra (Italian) releases and is daily expecting a shipment of HMV discs; McKenna's has already received 1000 HMV records, including such choice items as the Schnabel Beethoven Sonata Society sets, the Fischer recordings of the Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, and songs from the Wintereisse sung by Gerhard Husch; and both of the stores have the Polydor version of the Missa Solemnjs, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and chorus...
Memorizing the Memorable. He programed 51 mazurkas, 27 etudes, 25 preludes and all the polonaises, nocturnes and waltzes, left out only about a half dozen works. The pieces he eliminated were, he says, "works that Chopin didn't like at all. His Sonata No 1it's not Chopin at all. He tried to make a sonata in classical form, and it wasn't his. It would be a waste of time to play it, and no service to Chopin." When he had arranged his programs, Brailowsky memorized all 172 pieces. In 22 years...
Brahms: Second Sonata in E Flat for Clarinet and Piano (Benny Goodman and Nadia Reisenberg; Columbia, 6 sides). Brahms at his banal worst; Goodman at his technical best...