Word: sonatas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bartó:k: Violin Sonata No. 2-Roumanian Dances (Tossy Spivakovsky, violin; Artur Balsam, piano; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Bartok had just made his final break with musical orthodoxy when he wrote this sonata (1922). Violinist Spivakovsky is the man whose brilliant playing recently set San Francisco talking about Bartok's music (TIME, Jan. 26). Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
...Franck: Sonata in A Major (Zino Francescatti, violin; Robert Casadesus, piano; Columbia, 8 sides). One of the most fiery and exciting performances on records of one of Franck's best works. Recording: excellent...
...afternoon that San Franciscans were cheering the Bartók concerto, Yehudi Menuhin invited Manhattan critics to his Park Avenue apartment. Yehudi, dressed in a slack suit and bedroom slippers, wanted them to hear again a Bartók composition they had frowned on three years ago: a powerful sonata for unaccompanied violin which Bartók had written for Yehudi. Yehudi was going to play it again this week, and this time wanted the critics to be prepared. Bartok, hearing Yehudi play one of his compositions two years before he died, told him: "I thought works were only played...
...When the sonata was over, San Francisco's audience bravoed Szigeti to five curtain calls and fans followed him to his dressing room. Glowed Szigeti: "I think it got under their skins. I could feel it taking hold of them. This music-it is inescapable. A German composer could have diluted this sonata into enough material for a couple of symphonies...
...never forgotten." Twenty-three years ago in Prague it was Szigeti who had started Prokofiev's masterful Violin Concerto No. 1 on its way to fame. Last week in San Francisco, Szigeti bowed and plucked his way through the U.S. première of Prokofiev's new Sonata...