Word: adagietto
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...peaceful theme, dominated by sounds of strings and bassoons that werereminiscent of Eastern European music. The HRO, led by no less than four co-concertmasters, continued vacillating between tension and serenity, the latter being especially pleasant due to a strong cello section. The fourth movement, “Adagietto,” was written for only strings and harp and is perhaps one of Mahler’s best-known works. The romantic piece was given a successful treatment by the HRO’s violinists, who played as if they were soundtracking an Italian silent movie. The dark, uneasy...
...disappointed by the lack of a visual spectacle to accompany the delivery of their aural divertissement, they now realized that the best had truly been saved for last. The music itself was enough to enthrall the listeners, but even the juxtaposition of flowing harp and string lines in the Adagietto against the hysteria of Mahler's militaristic finale paled against one man's unearthly presence. Jacket strained across his back, he quavered with emotion, pressing his fingers to his lips to evoke a sense of the bellissimo in the Adagietto; in the frenzied phrases of the Rondo-Finale, his movements...
Excerpt "Much has been written about the perfect collaboration between choreographer, composer and designer under Diaghilev's supervision. The stages by which one of the most famous costumes of any Diaghilev ballet, that for Nemtchinova in the adagietto in Les Biches, reached its final form, are therefore of interest. We have seen how Laurencin's nebulous watercolors had been evolved by Sudeikina and Kochno ... Nemtchinova appeared before Diaghilev's eyes in a long blue velvet frock-coat, like that of a head porter in a hotel. 'Give me the scissors, Grigoriev!' Diaghilev exclaimed...
SYMPHONY NO. 5, BRUNO WALTER AND THE NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC and KINDERTOTENLIEDER, KATHLEEN FERRIER WITH WALTER AND THE VIENNA PHILHARMONIC (Odyssey, two LPs). Two more stereo re-channelings of early Walter recordings. The symphony is especially notable for the gemutlich rendition of the adagietto. This is the movement that Leonard Bernstein conducted at Senator Robert F. Kennedy's funeral in Manhattan's St. Patrick's Cathedral. The Kindertotenlieder is one of the last-and one of the best-recordings made by English Contralto Kathleen Ferrier before her death...
Moussorgsky's A Night on the Bare Mountain by Philippe Gaubert and the ?Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, 2 records, $2 ea.)?In three parts, this glittering, skirling fantasia fully reveals the mind which created Macbeth-like Boris Godounov. Bizet's Adagietto from L'Arlsienne Suite, on the back of the second disc, recorded by Willem Mengelberg and Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam...