Word: winograd
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Schubert: The Death of Lazarus (soloists, the NDR Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg. Arthur Winograd conducting; M-G-M). A fine first recording of Schubert's fragmentary oratorio based on the Biblical account of the dead brother of Mary and Martha. Schubert started the work in 1820 when he was 23, abandoned it after barely starting Part II to work on The Magic Harp. Schubert's hushed, haunting melancholy shimmers in this moving performance, illuminated by the powerful NDR Chorus and the rich singing of Soprano Barbara Troxell fas Mary...
Poulenc: Concerto for Organ, Strings and Timpani (Richard Ellsasser; Hamburg Philharmonia conducted by Arthur Winograd; M-G-M). A highly colored work that finds Composer Poulenc at his most charming. It is tuneful, with moments of surrealist shiftiness, brooding melancholy, sheer pyrotechnics. The disk has excessive surface noise...
Although both sank their gift shots, the Judges didn't relent, even through the last seconds when the Crimson held an 11-point lead. The continuing antagonism was clear from the three personals in the last 45 seconds. The Judges scored on one of these, though, and Leonard Winograd broke through for a layup in the last seconds to narrow the final margin to eight points...
...quartet's four members are as American as White Christmas. First Violinist Mann, 31, comes from Portland, Ore.; Second Violinist Robert Koff, 32, from Los Angeles; Violist Raphael Hillyer, 37, from Hanover, N.H., and Cellist Arthur Winograd, 31, from Manhattan. Mann and Koff knew each other at the Juilliard conservatory; Winograd and Hillyer, a onetime violinist in the Boston Symphony, met at Tanglewood. After the war (all but Hillyer were in the Army), they got together and persuaded Juilliard President William Schuman that they were exactly what he wanted for a resident quartet...