Word: violoncellos
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...present images ranging from the frank sensuality of electric violinist Vanessa-Mae, 17, to the girl-next-door allure of Leila Josefowicz, 18, to the more mature charms of Canadian cellist Ofra Harnoy, 30, and sultry new-music violinist Maria Bachmann, 35. And then there's the all-female violoncello quartet known collectively as Cello. The group is making records, performing widely--and if physical allure helps...
...season's opening the week before, he featured Rudolf Serkin in a velvety performance of Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto, creating a sensitive orchestral accompaniment to Serkin's ethereal tonalities. For the Bernstein concert, Slava took up his own instrument, while Lenny conducted his Three Meditations from "Mass" for Violoncello and Orchestra, an episodic piece that gave listeners a chance to hear Slava produce his exquisite cello sound, to watch his left hand flick across the finger board, his right arm streak like a bowing jet. Both programs were enlivened by the now familiar spectacle of Rostropovich leaping from...
Nobody before had played the cello the way Casals did. He spent hours on a single phrase, days and weeks on a single movement, whole years on the Bach Suites for Unaccompanied Violoncello, which he was the first cellist ever to perform in their entirety. "People say I play as easily as a bird sings. If they only knew how much effort their bird has put into his song." He may have worshiped the masters, but once onstage he insisted on meeting them as an equal, employing powerhouse accents, theatrical contrasts and a ruddy tone with an infinite variety...
...wait 16 years, but last week an interested audience gladly paid to hear Starker, one of the world's finest cello players, make his belated Carnegie Hall debut. For the occasion Starker performed the U.S. première of Haydn's Concerto in C for Violoncello and Orchestra, a work lost for nearly two centuries until it was unearthed in a castle in Czechoslovakia three years...
...program of last night's Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra concert showed the difference between musical bankruptcy and thematic economy. Shostakovich's Concerto for Violoncello deserves far less than it got (a very good performance from Pierre Fournier); it repeats monotonously to short themes that would have been cut even from a Hasty Pudding show...