Word: frescobaldi
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Last week his Parisian fans, overflowing onto the stage of the Theéátre des Champs Elysées, heard Virtuoso Segovia at his nimble-fingered best. Starting his program with a Bach fugue, he played transcriptions of works by Frescobaldi, Scarlatti, Haydn and Mozart, making his six-stringed instrument sound as brilliant as a harpsichord or as plaintive as a lute. When he concluded his program with music by Spanish Composers Albéniz and Granados, and the Italian, CastelnuovoTedesco, he was greeted with cries of "merci, merci" and "gracias," was shouted back for 15 curtain calls...
...major effort of the evening, the Mozart Double Piano Concerto. Here the Orchestra reached the peak of its abilities with delicate strings blending beautifully with the horns and woodwinds. Soloists Norman Wolfsohn and Seymour Hayden, a pair of renegade math instructors, coordinated their playing excellently and performed capably. Frescobaldi's Toccata ended the program in fine style. The strings were particularly good in this piece...