Word: szigeti
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Violinist Joseph Szigeti will perform with the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra, conducted by Attilio Poto, in Sanders Theatre Thursday...
...items as Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Bartok's Contrasts, and continued to rack up first recordings of modern masterpieces, e.g., Berg's Violin Concerto, Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky cantata. Gradually, Columbia built a stable of its own name artists (Pianist Rudolf Serkin, Violinist Joseph Szigeti), and created a new source of fine music as a major underwriter of the first Casals Festival. By the time Columbia introduced LP (1948), most of its classical catalogue was Lieberson-produced...
...Joseph Szigeti...
...cognoscenti gave their closest attention to the Festival Piano Quartet (a string trio and piano). Its players were famous "lone wolves of music," Pianist Clifford Curzon, Violinist Joseph Szigeti, Violist William Primrose, Cellist Pierre Fournier, and its founder was the late great Pianist Artur Schnabel. Like most serious musicians, the big-name soloists love to play chamber music; for the privilege of playing together, they agreed to accept fees far below their normal standard. Their performances of Brahms, Schubert and Fauré were brilliant. But few listeners outside of Edinburgh will have a chance to hear them: the quartet will...
...composer are few: "I don't speak Dutch. I work in my corner." While he works, his music travels: his Symphonie Concertante will be played next season by the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Rochester symphonies. Manhattan heard his Golgotha last winter, will hear Szigeti and the Violin Concerto next fall...