Word: moiseiwitsch
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Dates: during 1922-1922
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...compensate, Mme, Samaroff played the Schumann A minor concerto. This concerto has been played often at Boston symphony concerts, and deservedly; every hearing renews the impression that it is one of the most beautiful things in piano literature. Two years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch played it wonderfully; MM, Samaroff equalled his performance yesterday. The first movement as she gave it was fine as silk thread, warm, clear, lustrous; the remarkably fine execution of that very difficult syncopation in the last movement would alone have justified Mme, Samaroff's claim to the first rank of, musicianship. She is a superb artist...
Yesterday afternoon, in Symphony Hall, the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Monteux conducting, gave the third concert of its Friday afternoon series, Mr. Moiseiwitsch was the soloist...
...years ago Mr. Moiseiwitsch showed what a superb musician he is by playing the Schumann A minor concerto; yesterday he proved himself an equally fine technician in the Russian Teherepnins concerto. Particularly in whispered passages, Mr. Moiseiwitsch's tone seems unexcelled; in forte passages his (or the piano's) tone was less sympathetic. The orchestral parts of the concerto were not startling...
...songs by Brahms, Schumann, Wagner, and Schubert when she sang with the Orchestra three years ago., Alfred Cortot, of crisp and crystal tone, played the third Beethoven Concerto in C-minor at the concerts in the season of 1919-1920, when Albert Spalding also played the Dvorak violin concerto. Moiseiwitsch, whose "discovery" was the sensation of the year in 1920, played the Schumann concerto in A-minor two years ago. Most of the other soloists are old friends to the regular concert-goers: Suffice it to say that the list includes such tried and proved artists as John Powell, Frieda...