Word: bartok
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...maturity. Its faults are relatively few-the cello section is weak, the basses could improve a bit, but on the whole it is highly professional. Particularly noteworthy is its concertmaster, Tison Street, a young performer of extraordinary virtuosity. The almost demonical intensity with which he played, especially during the Bartok Divertimento for String Orchestra, portends a brilliant future for this particularly fine violinist...
...second piece on the program, the Bartok Divertimento for String Orchestra was extremely well done. This three movement piece is highly symmetrical, very mature Bartok, composed in 1939. It's movements, Allegro non troop, Molto adagio, and adagio assai. are quite transparent, the first a rough sonata form, the second consisting of three figures, the first identical to the last, and the third a rondo. The amazing virtuosity of the violin sections was made abundantly clear in this work, especially in the third movement...