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...first piece they have played this year that was composed by their namesake. Bach, in his Brandenburg Concerto No. 3, abandoned his usual use of a group of a solo instruments against an orchestral background. Originally intended for chamber performance, the third concerto calls for three violins, three violas, and three cellos, each group acting as a unit. The string orchestra that played last Saturday was heavily weighted against the viola section, both in numbers and in ability. The thread of the music continually got lost; whenever the ball was passed to the violas, they dropped it. The orchestra continued...
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Serenade for Flute, Violin, and Viola by Beethoven, and Divertimento in Eb by Mozart: Music From Marlboro; Longy School...
Works of Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, and David Alpern, Leslie Amper, piano, Jennifer Congleton, viola, Richard MacDowell, Clarinet; Winthrop...
Died. Lionel Tertis, 98, English viola virtuoso; in London. Born in 1876, on the same day as Cellist Pablo Casals, Tertis campaigned successfully to persuade composers to write solo pieces for his chosen instrument. For more than four decades Tertis was Europe's premier violist, playing with such friends as Casals and Pianist Artur Rubinstein, who joined him for a celebrated recital of Brahms' C Minor Piano Quartet during a London blackout in World War II. The Tertis viola, which he designed after his retirement, remains the choice of many leading concert performers...