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Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor (Georg Kulenkampff, violin; Enrico Mainardi, cello; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Carl Schuricht conducting; English Decca, 8 sides). This performance of Brahms's fussy but formidable work is not up to the Thibaud-Casals or Heifetz-Feuermann versions. Recording: good...
...other aspect is the immense prestige value to the Nazis of those who stayed. Gieseking, for example, toured all over occupied Europe giving German-sponsored concerts; Thibaud played in France; and as one German-Jewish movie producer put it: "Up to the end of the prewar days, when people were still travelling in Germany, I was told, 'After all, they can't really be so bad is Furtwangler is still there...
Last week, in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, slim, courtly Jacques Thibaud, looking much younger than his 66 years, made his first U.S. appearance in 15 years. In the audience were Violinists Fritz Kreisler, Mischa Elman and Nathan Milstein. Concertgoers used to the opulent Russian-style fiddling of Heifetz and Milstein had to pay sharp attention to Thibaud's delicate and smaller tone, but the effort was worth it. Thibaud played the violin solo in Lalo's melodious, tricky-rhythmed Symphonie Espagnole with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra. He had to come on stage six times to take bows...
After a two-month tour of the U.S., Thibaud will return to Paris and his U.S. protégé, 23-year-old Arnold Eidus of The Bronx. Eidus won the Thibaud International Competition for violinists last month. Says Thibaud proudly: "There were in this competition five Frenchmen, six Hungarians, three Hollanders-and one American. The American win. Such chic, such champagne in the tone. And technique! He never miss a note. It made me nervous. . . . You Americans, you don't know what talents you have...
...Thibaud is gloomily sure that the great Cortot-Thibaud-Casals trio will never play together again. "I have not been very lucky with my fellows," says he. "They have become politician. Cortot very bad, Casals a little...