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...harrowing musical storm that subsides at last into a serene speculation for strings inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest: "We are such stuff as dreams are made on; and our little life is rounded with a sleep." The Lark Ascending is a delicate, attenuated tone poem for violin, played by Hugh Bean with proper lyricism. Conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult certainly lives up to his reputation as Vaughan Williams' foremost interpreter...
MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 13 AND 17 (Columbia). French Pianist Philippe Entremont, 34, makes his recording debut as conductor in addition to playing the piano solos. There is plenty of precedent for the dual role: Bach at the keyboard, Mozart at the violin, playing and leading simultaneously. Entremont the conductor picked Mozart "because of the relatively small forces involved and the relatively simple rhythms," but it is Entremont the pianist who makes this a masterly record. Set off by the responsive but docile Collegium Musicum of Paris, his special gifts of musical veracity and taste enhance familiar music and make...
...even on the podium, preferring to lead unobtrusively from within the ranks with a toss of his head and a wave of his bow. Nor, as an intermittent member of the Budapest Quartet for more than 35 years, has he ever sawed away on anything but the No. 2 violin part. In short, he has made a career of playing second fiddle-and to all but his enthusiastic admirers he remains the dim background figure that second fiddlers are supposed...
Later, he emigrated to Germany with his cellist brother Mischa, who also was to become a member of the Budapest Quartet. Before starting his classical career in opera orchestras, Schneider earned money for violin lessons by playing in cafés. As a result, to this day he can dash off dozens of waltzes and gypsy airs from memory...
Following a short intermission, all six musicians reappeared on the stage, divested of jackets and ties. Their new-found comfort and relief was reflected in a superb performance of Shubert's Cello Quintet. The piece requires a back and forth interplay of plucking between the violin and cello. This was done in such a way as to give the listener the impression of a teasing, question and answer conversation between the two instruments. Not once did the piece move slowly or the sound lose its rich quality. In the Allegretto especially, the opening theme was brought back with force...