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World Music Festivals (Sun. 2:05 p.m., CBS). Part I, Salzburg Festival. Vienna Philharmonic conducted by George Szell...
...excite his listeners. More important musically was the emotional force with which he performed everything from Mozart to Bloch. Said Cleveland's noted Violinist Giorgio Ciompi: "His outstanding quality is that he puts his mind, his emotions, his bow together and gives himself completely," Said Conductor George Szell: "I consider him one of the great hopes among young violinists...
Liebermann's music was ably written in a palatably underplayed twelve-tone technique, and contained such novelties as a jitterbug scene with boogie-woogie background. Nevertheless, first-nighters felt it was low on drama and without a decisive style of its own. Despite the efforts of Conductor George Szell and the cast, the audience clapped coolly. Success of the evening: Star Christl Goltz, who sang Penelope with the cold but brilliant voice that has made her one of the finest dramatic sopranos on the Continent. Her own feeling about Penelope differed from the majority: "We can be thankful that...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 (Rudolf Serkin; Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell; Columbia). A superior account of a highly romantic score. Pianist Serkin's steely fingers ripple out a performance that yields but never sags, shouts but never blasts...
...world's finest violinists. He has a big tone, an impressive technique and immense warmth. In Manhattan's Carnegie Hall one afternoon last week, Stern and his fiddle were in top form. Playing Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under George Szell, Stern flaked warm, buttery tones off the violin with deep tenderness. As his bow drew the music from the strings, his body seemed to play its own accompaniment. Now he rose on his toes, now he shrugged with a phrase, now he twisted and bent forward. The hall's matinee...