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...Bartok: Viola Concerto (William Primrose, viola; the New Symphony Orchestra of London, Tibor Serly conducting; Bartok Records, 2 sides LP). Bartok sums up his own distinctive chromatic and rhapsodic language in this, one of his last compositions. A magnificent first recording of the concerto by the violist who commissioned it and the composer-conductor who completed it after Bartok's death...
...Lunn '55, soprano; Anthony W. Morss '53, piano; James D. Wood, Sp., clarinet; Nurhan A. Adrian '54 and Shahan A. Adrian '54, piano duo; Jaroslav F. Hulka '52, French horn; Earl C. Ravenal '52 and Sandor S. Shapiro '54, violin duo; Rosemary MacKown '54, piano, and Vernon Head, viola...
According to the pale orange program booklet handed out before last Friday's Boston, Symphony Orchestra concert, Berlioz' "Harold in Italy" (Symphony' in Four Parts with Viola Solo) is the musical story of a poet "wandering about the Italian countryside (represented by the orchestra) adding his individual comment (the viola part) to the scenes which passed before his eyes." In last Friday's performance, both the soloist, William Primrose, and the audience added some comment that Berlioz had not figured...
...Bach's Quintet in E flat for flute, oboe, violin, viola, and continuo concluded the program. The combination of woodwinds and strings resulted in some unique tonal effects, but the work itself seemed not worth the trouble...
...instruments survived, and one 130-year-old copy turned up at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall last week in the hands of Musician Francis Lantos, a Hungarian-born refugee. Lantos' countryman, Composer Tibor Serly (who deciphered and scored Bartok's famed Viola Concerto), had written his plaintive Chamber Folk Music for violin, piano and tarogato in 1948, but until recently had found no one who could make the instrument sing. Lantos, who broadcasts over