Word: ansermet
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...later and more familiar works, RCA Victor offers a superbly warm performance of No. 93 (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Guido Cantelli conducting; 6 sides). Recording, on 45 r.p.m.: excellent. London FFRR'S release of No. 101, "The Clock" (L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet conducting; 2 sides, LP), is less warm, more straightforward. Recording: good...
Bartok: Quartet No. 3 (New Music String Quartet; Bartok Recording Studios, 1 side, LP). Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet once described the late great Bela Bartok as "one who searches groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling." Composed in 1927, his Quartet No. 3 is crammed with rhythmic and harmonic search, and a few groans and smiles too. With this excellent recording, made by the composer's son Peter, 25, all six Bartok quartets are now on wax. Performance: good...
Bearded Conductor Ansermet, who had introduced and championed much of the music of his friend Igor Stravinsky, seemed to agree on some of it with an early Stravinsky critic, Claude Debussy, who had said to Ansermet years ago: "You know how much I admire Petrouchka, but The Rite of Spring disturbs me. It seems to me that Stravinsky is trying to make music out of something that is not music, just like the Germans . . . tried to make breakfasts out of sawdust...
Beautiful Promise. But, wrote Ansermet, Stravinsky and Twelve-Toner Arnold Schönberg had added two bands of color to the spectrum of western music, "ultraviolet and infra-red." Among other hopefuls, "Alban Berg [TIME, May 31] has written pages of overwhelming beauty. The hour of Berg will come . . . Bartok is a symbol of our times. He is one of those who search groaningly, even though he may appear to be smiling. His last works are the most beautiful promise that modern music has offered...
...atonality, both conductors were in fundamental, if coincidental, agreement. Wrote Ansermet: "Tonal music is an expression of clear sentiments, Schönbergi-an music seems to cultivate the obscure...