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...Philadelphia last week, famed Violinist Efrem Zimbalist, 63, came out of a three-year retirement to solo with the Philadelphia Orchestra. His reason: he wanted to play the world premiere of Gian-Carlo (The Consul) Menotti's Violin Concerto in A Minor...
Busoni: Sonata No. 2 (Richard Burgin, violin; Edward Weiss, piano; Circle). A massive and powerful work that seems younger than its 53 years. It is free of the flowery passage work of Busoni's famous piano transcriptions, but never dissonant in the modern sense. It is excellently performed by the Boston Symphony's concertmaster and a pupil of the composer...
...Alban Berg's warmhearted Violin Concerto, expertly played by Szymon Goldberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony...
...corelli concerti were only slightly less unpressive than the Handel, largely because they were eclipsed by the vutnese pertormance ruth Posselt gave to Corelli's A major violin sonata. Her flawless rendition of a breath taking perpetua mobile-type movement as well as her scrupulously clean articulation all evening again marked her as a technician of the highest order and her interpretations were colorful and exciting though never lacking in taste...
Dohnayi's Screnade in C, for violin, viola, and cello, is a delightfully original work, full of truth and good humor. The third movement, with its nonsensical chattering between violin and viola punctuated by the lugubrious comments of the cello, gently satirizes the typical Nineteenth Century but is at the same time good music in its own right. The versatile who had sounded in the Beethoven, changed their tone for Dohnanyi; clarify gave way to richness, and relaxed give and take took the place of precision...