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Good string quartets are about as rare in the U.S. as quadruplets. Last week in Berkeley, Calif, a new one took the air. The Paganini Quartet (so named because their cello, viola, and two violins are Stradivarii once owned by the great violinist, Niccolo Paganini) played Beethoven and Debussy at a brisker than usual clip, but the music was warm and dramatic. Wrote the San Francisco Chronicle's critic, Alfred Frankenstein: "Perhaps never before has one heard a string quartet with so rich, mellow and superbly polished a tone...
When the Nazis ordered the Kulturbund to perform only in secluded synagogues, Steinberg took its best musicians to Palestine, where he and Polish Violinist Bronislaw Hubermann formed the Palestine Symphony Orchestra. Hubermann invited Arturo Toscanini to conduct the first public concert in Tel Aviv. Toscanini listened to a few well-rehearsed bars, nodded his approval and mumbled: "Molto bene [very good...
...debut in Manhattan in 1888, the audience applauded and shouted so wildly that it had to be forcibly calmed by police. (Almost unnoticed in the excitement was another musician making his U.S. debut on the same program: a 13-year-old Viennese violinist billed as Master Fritz Kreisler.) Rosenthal's grand manner meant first-rate playing, but it also had plenty of the showman in it. Once, in Cincinnati, he played Liszt's Don Juan Fantaisie so thunderously that a piano leg fell off. As Rosenthal described it: "I had to play without the pedals. I finalized...
Brahms: Hungarian Dances (Erica Mormi, violinist, with Artur Balsam pianist; Victor, 6 sides). The nation's outstanding woman violinist plays the familiar dinner-concert favorites, Nos. 1, 5 and 6, and the less often heard Nos. 7, 8 and 17. Performance: excellent...
Prokofiev: Sonata In D Major for Violin and Piano (Joseph Szigeti with Leonid Hambro, pianist; Columbia, 6 sides). One of Prokofiev's most lyrical scores, recorded expertly and for the first time by the violinist who introduced it in the U.S. in 1944. Performance: excellent...