Word: violists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SCHUBERT: QUINTET IN A MAJOR (Vox). Schubert wrote "The Trout" in the lightest of holiday moods, and the double bass has to tiptoe to keep the music from being heavy-footed. Georg Hortnagel handles the part with the required grace, playing with the violinist, violist and cellist of the Hungarian String Quartet. A percussive piano could also shatter Schubert's mood, but Louis Kentner's playing is gossamer. The result is a lithe, blithe dream of summer...
...MINOR (RCA Victor). The slow passages by this master of muted color and subtle modulation are like a descent in a bathysphere. New and mysterious vistas open as the harmonies shift. The long-trailing melodies can sound flaccid but not when spun out by the Festival Quartet, including Virtuoso Violist William Primrose and Violinist Szy-mon Goldberg...
Complete Musician. Hindemith was a composer's composer-and a complete musician. He wrote music, as Albert Einstein once said, "as a tree bears fruit"-great bushels of music, turned out in orderly, workmanlike style. He was a concert violist and pianist, a competent player of every other instrument in the orchestra, and a greatly admired conductor. In a single day at the Berlin Festival in 1960, Hindemith conducted four choirs, played a three-string vielle in a recital of 14th century songs, then sat back to listen to the world première of his Motets for Tenor...
This carefully tooled engine of mu sic is the Moscow Chamber Orchestra, a group of 22 young, well-tempered muzykanly currently touring the U.S. with a rich repertory that runs from Bach to Bartok. At the wheel is Conductor Rudolf Barshai, 39, a trim violist who organized the group in 1955 at the Moscow Conservatory...
...achieve the musical and personal rapport that such expressiveness requires, the players cultivate an emotional generosity toward one another that reminds them all of a good marriage. First Violinist Robert Mann, 43, and Violist Raphael Hillyer, 49, charter members of the quartet, are a perfect match for musicmaking-Mann the easy, natural leader, Hillyer the intense, nervous brooder. Second Violinist Isidore Cohen, 40, who joined in 1958, seldom speaks except when spoken to-a towering virtue in a second violinist -and Cellist Claus Adam, 45, is also an ideal man for his instrument-a calm, stable, reassuring anchorman...