Word: violiniste
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...name of Szymon Goldberg is not yet familiar to most U.S. concertgoers, but fanciers of fiddling have known it for years. They have willingly paid high prices for his imported records, though they could get U.S. recordings of better-known violinists for less. From Violinist Goldberg, who was concertmaster of the Berlin Philharmonic at 20, they heard none of the showy virtuosity that often gets between a composer and his audience. The secret of Szymon Goldberg's art is not its showmanship but its selflessness...
...flat roofs of surrounding Arab houses. Conducting while played the piano sitting on a chair balanced on piles of flat rocks, Bernstein felt the chair slipping away from him, rose to a half-stance, and continued to play the Rhapsody in Blue while the first violinist propped the chair up again...
...almost forgotten that their conductor was once one of the world's finest violists. Now 73, he hadn't played in public concert for nearly 40 years, but he had kept in practice at his summer home in Maine, playing trios with his neighbors-one of them Violinist Tossy Spivakovsky. To prepare himself for his chamber concert, Monteux had practiced with the San Francisco String Quartet for two weeks, while also getting his orchestra ready for its first concert of the season...
Beethoven: Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2, Op. 12 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist; Emanuel Bay, pianist; Victor, 8 sides). Heifetz and Bay make these early, Haydnish sonatas sparkle for all they are worth. Recording: good...
Mozart: Concerto No. 4, K. 218 (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor, 6 sides). Heifetz is too often sleek where cleanliness, clarity and simplicity are called for. Recording: good...