Word: violins
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...recordings made recently of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire and Alban Berge's Violin Concer-to bring to this country for the first time in permanent form two of the greatest works by two of the greatest modern composers. For those who have known Schoenberg only through an early work--the mawkish puddle of Post-Romantic sentimentality known as Verklarte Nacht--the recording of Peirrot Lunaire demands a re-estimation of his true greatness--and weakness...
Alban Berg, Schoenberg's greatest disciple, composed a Violin Concerto just before his death. This magnificent piece of music is superior to Pierrot Lunaire chiefly because any architectonically-built composition surpasses a chain of short movements, but apart from that it possesses an immediacy of appeal and an emotional impact almost unequalled in any other modern work. Suite Lyrique, for string quartet, was for a long while the only thing of Berg's available on records. And it affected most listeners as a piece of sheer gibberish, a composer's nightmare in which the various instruments were twisted and tortured...
...feature release this month is the Brahms Double Concerto for Violin and Cello, played by Heifetz and Feuermann with the Philadelphia Orchestra under Ormandy (Album M-815). The Double Concerto was Brahms' last essay in the symphonic form. After finishing it he turned back finally and for good to the smaller forms in which he seemed to be more at home, the chamber sonata, the song, and the piano lyric. And I don't think that I am reading things into the music when I say that the Double Concerto has about it a sort of tiredness with the orchestral...
...recorder blends well with a violin, or with other recorders. There are four kinds: soprano, alto, tenor, bass, the last surprisingly weak and whiskey-voiced for its three-foot length. Until five years ago, most recorders were made in Germany or England. The English revival had been started by the late untidy-bearded Arnold Dolmetsch, musical antiquary. One of his pupils, Margaret Bradford (who now helps run the American Recorder Society), got a Haverhill. N.H. cabinetmaker named William F. Koch to make some. Now Manufacturer Koch turns hard, red cocobolo wood into 90% of the recorders sold...
...performing it, but when this desire supersedes the wish for music itself, it into the song of mass idolatory of popular figures sponsored by Hollywood (a spirit well illusrated by a banner hanging in a mid western to a recently where Herfetz was scheduled to play. "Hcilcts and his violin...