Word: vivaldi
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...after a futile appeal to Scotland Yard, discovered him alive in London (when he died in 1954, 87-year-old Composer Maryon left Slonimsky all his manuscripts). On the other hand, Slonimsky has suffered his setbacks: no amount of sleuthing has ever revealed the official birth dates of Antonio Vivaldi or Enrico Caruso; no fewer than 13 Enrico Carusos were born in Naples on or about the date (Feb. 25, 1873) on which the tenor is assumed to have been born (he was the 18th or 19th of 21 children, most of whom did not survive infancy, and his parents...
...Vivaldi: Concerto #2 in G minor for flute (D); Schumann: Fantasiestucke (RCA); Beethoven: Symphony #3 "Eroica" (V) Copeland: Quiet City (Per); Liszt: Preludes...
...Brahms: Symphony #4 (EMI) Ravel: Quartet in F major (W); Vivaldi: Concerto for Orchestra (HSLP...
...Mozart: Divertimento in B flat, K. 287 (V); Prokoviev: Prodigal Son (Vx); Handel: Sonata for Flute and Continuo, Op. 1 #7 (D); Schubert: Die Schone Mullerin (Vx); Britten: Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge (L); Adam: Giselle; Vivaldi: Concerto in G major for two 'Celli and orchestra...
Rich Without Reediness. Harold played Vivaldi's Concerto in D Minor; Ralph played Handel's Concerto in G Minor. To a casual listener endowed with the gift of being in two places at once it would have been impossible to distinguish between the brothers' styles (the Gombergs themselves sometimes cannot tell which one is playing a certain passage on an unidentified recording). Both play with the round, richly colored sound characteristic of all oboists who have studied with the Philadelphia Orchestra's famed, longtime Solo Oboist Marcel Tabuteau. Both give the oboe's warmly singing...