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...STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OPUS 96 (London). Chamber music has a reputation for being cerebral, but Dvořák makes it heady. His "American" quartet, written in 1893 on a summer visit to Spillville, Iowa, is filled with song and catchy rhythm. The excellent Janacek Quartet plays it brightly, as well as the earlier, more conventional Quartet in D Minor dedicated to Brahms...
BRAHMS: FANTASIES OPUS 116 (Deutsche Grammophon). What Van Cliburn lacks in the Brahms concerto, Pianist Wilhelm Kempff supplies here in full measure, condensing a whole spectrum of feelings into these seven melodic miniatures of Brahms's maturity...
HANDEL: THE TWELVE CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 6 (4 LPs; Angel). Using the same basic means- two violins and a cello set against a small orchestra- Handel achieved widely different moods. Yehudi Menuhin plays one of the violins in the trio and conducts the Bath Festival Orchestra with the same scholarly fidelity and high musical spirits that he displayed in his recent recording of the Water Music...
HAYDN: QUARTETS OPUS 3, NO. 5; OPUS 33, NO. 2; OPUS 76, NO. 2 (London). A sampling from three periods of Haydn's music, mileposts in the early history of the string quartet. The earliest, nicknamed "The Serenade," sounds like party music played by strolling strings. "The Joke" is more serious; its nickname comes from Haydn's wager that the ladies would talk before the music ended. The last of the three shows Haydn at his richest and most complex. The members of the Janácek Quartet from Czechoslovakia play the works from memory, but they play...
...loves was music, and for close friends C. D. and his wife Gracie would play piano duos in their New York apartment. The Boston Symphony, on whose board he served, sent its string quartet to his memorial service this week to play the slow movement from Beethoven's Opus...