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Lalo: Violin Concerto In F (Miriam Solovieff; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Henry Swoboda conducting; Concert Hall). A fiddler's standby, warmly played by talented U.S. Violinist Solovieff...
Died. Adolf Busch, 60, German-born violinist, founder (in 1919) of the Busch String Quartet and (in 1935) of the Busch Chamber Music Players; of a heart attack; in Guilford...
Last week before a Paris audience Frank Martin placed a major work: his new, half-hour-long Violin Concerto. Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet and Hungarian-born Violinist Joseph Szigeti made it a labor of love, took five curtain calls. Martin rose twice from his box seat, bowed shyly. Said Szigeti: "A truly-extraordinary concerto . . . It is caressingly sweet and yet it avoids all grandiloquence." Said Conductor Ansermet: "A great work...
After a somewhat colorless cantata by Buxtchude, the audience found itself four centuries after Machaut and finally on more familiar ground with Bach's cantata No. 32, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen. The performance, featuring two excellent soloists, Jean Lunn, soprano, and Vincent Allison, baritone, was smooth and often moving. Violinist Helena Pappenheimer and oboeist Robert Freeman also deserve special commendation for their rendition of the instrumental obbligatos...
...From Violinist Schneider, his followers have learned to expect a dedication to chamber music of almost violent intensity. Even when he was holding down posts as concertmaster, soloist and conductor in Germany, he was rarely without his own ensemble. In 1939 he visited the U.S. with the Budapest Quartet, stayed on and played with the Budapest through most of the war. Since the war, he has organized in turn a chamber music trio, a duo and the Schneider Quartet, and taken a leading part in the Casals festivals in France. Last winter, in preparation for the Haydn cycle, he rehearsed...