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Tall, lean, balding Joseph Szigeti (rhymes with spaghetti) is not the silky-slickest violinist in the world (Jascha Heifetz is), nor the velvety-mellowest (Fritz Kreisler is). But for flawless taste and all-round performance, Fiddler Szigeti gets the votes of most critics, fiddlers, composers, fastidious concert-fanciers. The 15 years, on & off, that Szigeti has fiddled in the U. S. have given him a taste for such U. S. diversions as listening to swing and the radio. Last week radio "jaywalkers"-as he calls dial-twiddlers-had a chance to hear Szigeti...
...Drop Me Off At Harlem and Lazy Rhapsody, plus an article on the Duke by John Hammond, who is billed as "America's Greatest Jazz Authority." They're wrong, he's the second greatest. I'm the greatest ... Bela Bartok's Contrasts For Violin, Piano, and Clarinet, features Bartok, Szigeti, and Benny Goodman. This is awfully interesting stuff besides giving a pretty good idea of Benny's all round musical ability (COLUMBIA...
Bartolc: Contrasts for Violin, Clarinet and Piano (Bela Bartok, piano; Joseph Szigeti, violin; Benny Goodman, clarinet; Columbia: 4 sides). Hungarian Composer Bartok (see p. 45) wrote these paprika-pungent pieces in 1938, expressly for his good compatriot-friend Szigeti and Szigeti's good Midwestern friend Goodman...
...three made the recording last spring. The Contrasts: a blue Verbunkos (Recruiting Dance), a slow Piheno (Relaxation), an intricate Sebes (Fast Dance), in which Szigeti alternates between two fiddles, one purposely mistuned, and Goodman between A and B-flat clarinets. Composer Bartok stirs up an acrid dressing for his Hungarian tunes, but languid modern palates may like the dish...
...Washington, at a reverent chamber-music festival, Composer Bartók at the piano collaborated with an eminent friend and compatriot, Violinist Joseph Szigeti (pronounced zig-get´ty), in his First Rhapsody and Second Sonata. The same pair gave the Rhapsody a repeat performance in Manhattan. The Philadelphia Orchestra played two "Bartók Images, fairly easy on the ears. The League of Composers had scheduled an all-Bartók concert in Manhattan for this week, once again with "Bartók and Szigeti on the stage...