Word: violiniste
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SCHUBERT: QUINTET IN A MAJOR (Vox). Schubert wrote "The Trout" in the lightest of holiday moods, and the double bass has to tiptoe to keep the music from being heavy-footed. Georg Hortnagel handles the part with the required grace, playing with the violinist, violist and cellist of the Hungarian String Quartet. A percussive piano could also shatter Schubert's mood, but Louis Kentner's playing is gossamer. The result is a lithe, blithe dream of summer...
...slow passages by this master of muted color and subtle modulation are like a descent in a bathysphere. New and mysterious vistas open as the harmonies shift. The long-trailing melodies can sound flaccid but not when spun out by the Festival Quartet, including Virtuoso Violist William Primrose and Violinist Szy-mon Goldberg...
...Inauguration Eve concert, with Washington's National Symphony under Howard Mitchell, and with Violinist Isaac Stern, Pianist Van Cliburn, and Singers Todd Duncan and Theresa Coleman, was the cultural event of the week...
HINDEMITH: KAMMERMUSIK NO. 4 and KURT WEILL: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Westminster). The young Hungarian-born violinist Robert Gerle has chosen some nearly trackless territory to explore, but he is led by that experienced pioneer, Hermann Scherchen. conducting the Vienna Wind Group and other instrumentalists...
...Klee had already probed, as he put it, "beyond impressionism" and had become an unwitting prophet of the surrealism to come. More important, after many self-doubting years of dabbling at writing and moonlighting as a violinist, he declared during a Tunisian trip: "Color and I are one. I am a painter." Once he had wondered: "Am I God?" Now he was sure that his creative fire exceeded "white heat. In my work, I do not belong to the species, but am a cosmic point of reference...