Word: sonatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Concert Hall cuts directly from "masters," eliminating the "mother" and "stamper" discs used for mass production of commercial records. Concert Hall Society's first releases-Prokofiev's Second String Quartet by the Gordon String Quartet, and Aaron Copland's Piano Sonata and Our Town Suite by Leo Smit-were high quality recordings, but nothing to make other record companies change their ways. Concert Hall's virtue was its decision to record unfamiliar music...
Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 8 (Pathétique) in C Minor (Erno Balogh, Vox, 4 sides; Rudolf Serkin, Columbia, 6 sides). Two versions of a much-needed recording. Balogh plays with grace, Serkin with passion. Performance of both: good...
Featured on tonight's broadcast will be the Brahms Clarinet Sonata, Opus 120, No. 1, and Schumann's Fantasie-stuck No. 3 for clarinet and piano. Lee will accompany Archie Johnson '50, clarinetist...
Prokofiev: Sonata In D Major for Violin and Piano (Joseph Szigeti with Leonid Hambro, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Prokofiev's most lyrical scores, recorded expertly and for the first time by the violinist who introduced it in the U.S. in 1944. Performance: excellent...
...crowd cheered everything indiscriminately, and wept over Enesco's own stormy Sonata No. 3 in A Minor. For Menuhin and Enesco the concerts were warmups. They plan to play together in the U.S. next fall...