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Guest artist Victor Rosenbaum, one of the outstanding pianists of the younger generation, will perform the Mozart Sonata in E-Flat, K. 282; the Beethoven Sonata in E-Major, Op. 109; the Schubert Sonata in A-Minor, Op. 42; and the Webern Plane Variations...
...service of a rather stodgy and unimaginative program. This is not the place for a disquisition on the ghastly musical tedium guaranteed by the usual subscription concert (can anyone living in Boston ever want to hear the Symphonie Fantastique again?), but why, Miss de los Angeles, when Schubert wrote over six hundred songs, must we have yet another performance of An die Musik, and why when Ravel's Chansons madecasses lie neglected, must we feel satisfied with his Vocalise and a few marrons glaces by Faure...
...Violette pleases us anew when clothed in such velvety beauty of sound as the Spanish soprano produced last Wednesday. Still more noteworthy--because less expected--was the increased command which de los Angeles seems recently to have developed over the realm of German lieder. Her exuberant performance of Schubert's Mein! made me forget for a moment that the songs from Die Schone Mullerin and hardly suited to a woman's voice and manner. Der Tod und das Madchen, on the other hand, conveyed such a deep sense of both the terror and the serenity of death, that...
...last years she took up the direction of the new Norway Opera and retired happily to her great wood house in Kristiansand, on Norway's south coast. There, amid heavy paintings and great music, she knitted, played solitaire, entertained her friends with evenings of Schumann and Schubert, softly singing the lieder to her own accompaniment. And always, there was the suggestion that given some encouragement, she could still sing the great Liebestod, the song of love-unto-death that belonged to Flagstad...
...transition from opera to art song within a recital is always hazardous, and Mme, Crespin had a bit of trouble adjusting her voice to the intimate demands of a group of Schubert and Schumann lie.ler. Schumann's Mondnacht, for example, was "crooned" rather than sung, and in general one missed just that quality which Mme. Crespin's recent teacher, Lotte Lehmann, would have brought to the songs, a sense that one was hearing a singing actress rather than a merely vocal phenomenon of the order of the Colossus of Rhodes...