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...sight. Three sisters, they were also sisters of Los Angeles' congregation of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and they had been performing together since 1931, when the youngest was five, the eldest nine. Their Capitol debut in Schubert's Trio No. 2 in E flat, Opus 100, marks the latest step in the musical career of a remarkable trio...
Shostakovich: From Jewish Folk Poetry, Opus 79 (Nina Dorlyak, Zara Do-ukhanova, Alexei Maslenikov; composer at the piano; Monitor). Shostakovich's :acit reproach to Stalinist antiSemitism, this lyrical, introspective music for three voices and piano offers a rewarding _limpse-far more intimate than his recent bombastic orchestral works-into the spirit of the talented, troubled man who s today's top Soviet composer...
...Sonata for Viola Solo, Opus 25, No.1, was the first of four pieces from the early 1920's, thus coming from the time before Hindemith was 30 years old. Hindemith, a concert violist himself, was familiar with the sonic abilities of that instrument. The piece was a study in dissonance, brought about by playing on two strings at once. The multiple-stopping was at times very difficult, but Eleftherios Eleftherakis played brilliantly for the most part. The piece and its performance were marked by a great richness of tone and lucidity...
Mary Fraley Johnson played the Sonata for Violoncello Solo, Opus 25, No. 3, in her usual dramatic and vehement manner. This piece is some-what similar to its predecessor from the same opus, but was not nearly so dissonant. It did, however, accentuate the same tonal richness...
Following the intermission came the most moving piece of the evening--Des Todes Tod, Opus 23a--in what was one of its first American performances. The piece is based on three poems by Eduard Reinacher and is scored for woman's voice, two violas and two 'celli. The soprano was Jean Lunn, who also organized the whole program. Her performance was outstanding, her interpretation dramatic, and her voice very clear. She was well supported by Miss Johnson and Judith Davidoff, 'cellists, and Mr. Eleftherakis and Joseph Pietropaolo, violists...