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...Virtuoso Oboe (Andre Lardrot, oboe; the Vienna State Opera Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Felix Prohaska; Vanguard). Oboist Lardrot flitters his agile way through selections from Cimarosa, Handel, Haydn, Albinoni in a delightful demonstration of the richly colored range of one of the orchestra's less glamorous members. Haydn's Concerto...
Still it was not enough to satisfy her youthful dream. She recorded an album of Haydn sonatas (released this summer), immediately made arrangements to record Bach's Three-Part Inventions. But that, at last, was denied. One morning last week, in her home in Connecticut, Wanda Landowska suffered a stroke, and there she died...
...opening work was the quaint Duet in D Major by Haydn. There followed the Duo for Violin and Violoncello by the contemporary composer Bohuslav Martinu, a work that is full of technical difficulties and cadenza-like passages for the two instruments. The final work was Ravel's splendid Sonata for Violin and Violoncello, which elicted the most enthusiastic response from the audience...
...program, open to the public, will include Haydn's Duet in D Major, Martinu's Duo for Violin and 'Cello, and Ravel's Sonata for Violin and 'Cello...
Last week's audience applauded Haydn's stargazing to the rafters, and the critics beamed. Nobody seemed to mind that Haydn's outer space was shaped remarkably like an 18th century Viennese drawing room...