Word: sonatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wednesday night in Sanders Theater, the Music Department presented the second in its spring term series of free concerts. In a program which was too long and too varied, no one would have missed the Beethoven March, nor did the somewhat uninspired rendition of Mozart's Sonata in D Major justify its inclusion. Pianists Robert Cornman and Leonid Hambro showed their grasp of the nineteenth century, however, in Schubert's Eight Variations, which predicted the styles of his successors with remarkable accuracy...
...highlight of the evening for me was Allen Sapp's second Violin Sonata. The dry-tang texture of the first movement, caused by the conflict of harmonies between violin and piano, combines with the many melodies to give a very striking effect. Perhaps the finest moment in the piece comes in the carefully built-up climax of the second movement. Except for a few scattered parts, the writing throughout the Sonata is tight; the piece never seems too long for its contents. My only objection is to some of the bowing effects in the first movement, which don't really...
Beethoven: Sonata No. 3, Op. 69 (Pierre Fournier, cello; Artur Schnabel, piano; Victor, 6 sides). French Cellist Fournier made a hit two seasons ago at the Edinburgh Festival with Pianist Schnabel, Violinist Joseph Szigeti, and Violist William Primrose (TIME, Sept. 22, 1947). Here, in his U.S. record debut with Schnabel (and Beethoven), he succeeds again. Recording: excellent...
After 13 years of experimenting, Cage has managed to weld together ten works (Construction in Metal, Second Construction, etc.) for pipe-length, brake-drum orchestras, and, with six different "preparations," nine major works for piano. Necessarily expressionistic, one of his sonatas last week moved the New York Times to get a faraway look in its good, grey eyes: "The fourteenth sonata . . . suggested burro's hoofs on far-off cobbles, while a gentle church bell sounded sadly in the distance...
Records ran a close second, and girls want the semi-classics, like Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata,--"That's my favorite because it was the background music of a movie I liked," testified one young miss...