Word: sonatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bartok: Sonata No. I (Adolph Bailer, piano; Yehudi Menuhin, violin; Victor, 8 sides). Composed in 1921, when Bartok's own distinctive style was first beginning to take form, the sonata foreshadows the lyric power and rhythmic force of the great Concerto for Violin (1938). In this performance, Bailer's piano overshadows Menuhin's violin. Recording: fair...
Beethoven: Sonata in F Major, Opus 24 (Emanuel Bay, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Victor, 4 sides). Playing cleanly, Heifetz makes the delightful "Spring" sonata blossom. Recording: good...
Kabalevslcy: Sonata No. 3, Opus 46 (Vladimir Horowitz, piano; Victor, 4 sides). Contemporary Soviet Composer Dmitri Kabalevsky's melodic, if Mussorgsky-ish, piece is more Pianist Horowitz' meat than the Mozart Sonata in F Major, K. 332, also available this month. Both recordings: good...
...performance of Harold Shapero's Four-Hand Piano Sonata indicated that the interest of the two pianists is in contemporary music. Both devoted themselves to giving the work every advantage. Shapero composed the piece during his first year out of Harvard, and Leonard Berstein performed it with him for the first time...
After intermission, Alfred Howard and Robert Matson joined the pianists in Bartok's Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion. It was clearly the big attraction of the evening; in fact, I thought Sanders Theater would fall in a heap from the applause when it was over. Just how much of the work's impact comes from powerful writing and how much from the force of the medium is hard to tell on first hearing. It seemed to me that much of the percussion part was only reinforcement, especially in the first movement. The two elements have a clearer relation...