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...Nile. The libretto is somewhat bowdlerized (gone is mehitabel's running refrain of "wottheheli wotthehell"), but the original's splendid gutter lyricism is still there: wind come out of the north and pierce to the guts within but some day mehitabel s guts will string a violin...
...tragic opera," and the Daily Express hailed "the proudest hour for British music since the premiere of Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes." Sir William made his own evaluation: "It won't please the highbrows . . . no atonal stuff." Moreover, he liked opera so much that he was off violin sonatas and string quartets for a while. Said he: "It's things like this opera that bring the money...
Weber: Six Sonatas for Violin and Piano (Ruggiero Ricci, violin; Carlo Bussotti, piano: London). For all their outdated sighs and postures, these youthful works of the first genuine German Romantic composer (1786-1826) are melodious, unpretentious and full of charm...
...Cambridge Society for Early Music devoted all three of its concerts this fall to works by Johann Scbastian Bach. In the second concert, Ruth Posselt was the featured soloist in three of the rarely performed Sonatas for violin with harpsichord and continue. I admired especially the rhythmic vitality and sharpness of articulation which she brought to these works. Her dramatic vibrato, however, seemed out of place in the stately declamation of the E major Adagio, while the following Allegro sounded overly stiff, and other occasional nuances of mood were only slightly indicated. Yet within her conception, the performance was minutely...
...Boston Symphony, conducted by Charles Munch, made its Manhattan debut this season with Mario Peragallo's Violin Concerto. The work, by Italy's rising Composer Peragallo (44), won a first prize in Rome's Twentieth-Century Music conference last spring. A slick combination of atonal technique and Puccini-like melody, it kept Violinist Joseph Fuch's fingers flying, pleased musical conservatives more than the radicals...