Word: violins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bach: Sonatas for Harpsichord and Violin (Ralph Kirkpatrick, harpsichord; Alexander Schneider, violin; Columbia, 28 sides). An event of the year for Bach lovers, a hardy group that knows what it likes. Here, in the six early sonatas, is some of the freshest music Bach wrote, played in fine style. Recording: good...
Bartó:k: Violin Sonata No. 2-Roumanian Dances (Tossy Spivakovsky, violin; Artur Balsam, piano; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Bartok had just made his final break with musical orthodoxy when he wrote this sonata (1922). Violinist Spivakovsky is the man whose brilliant playing recently set San Francisco talking about Bartok's music (TIME, Jan. 26). Recording (on Vinylite): excellent...
Franck: Sonata in A Major (Zino Francescatti, violin; Robert Casadesus, piano; Columbia, 8 sides). One of the most fiery and exciting performances on records of one of Franck's best works. Recording: excellent...
...find in his music. Not until a year after his death in 1945 did audiences get to hear much of his music, and to convince themselves that they liked it. Big record companies rushed his last great compositions onto wax: Columbia, the Piano Concerto No. 3; Victor, the Violin Concerto. Neither has yet recorded what some admirers believe is the greatest work of them all: the Concerto for Orchestra...
...Franciscans were cheering the Bartók concerto, Yehudi Menuhin invited Manhattan critics to his Park Avenue apartment. Yehudi, dressed in a slack suit and bedroom slippers, wanted them to hear again a Bartók composition they had frowned on three years ago: a powerful sonata for unaccompanied violin which Bartók had written for Yehudi. Yehudi was going to play it again this week, and this time wanted the critics to be prepared. Bartok, hearing Yehudi play one of his compositions two years before he died, told him: "I thought works were only played that way long...