Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What started out as a routine recital by violinist Annette Colish Sunday night soon developed into an extraordinary display of musicianship and technique. Miss Colish, who is concertmistress of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra and a pupil of Richard Burgin, opened her program with Corelli's Sonata No. 2. This she played quite stiffly; the notes were all there but she lacked the fire so necessary to lift the sonata above the realm of stodgy period pieces...
Even better was the Debussy Sonata No. 3. Playing like a professional, Miss Colish took the tricky rhythms in her stride and exhibited a rich, livid tone that had been absent earlier in the evening. Skillful modulation of phrasing and dynamics, ranging from sudden bold contrasts to the subtlest of nuances, helped to make the sonata a glowing and multicolored organism...
...more taxing C-minor Fantasia did not have this unity of conception. In its opening pages, as in the Menuetto of the E-flat Sonata (R. 282), Mr. Lewin played so slowly that one lost the momentum of individual figurations, not to speak of whole phrases. One might also criticize the frequent obtrusion upon the melodic line of reiterated chords and single notes which should serve only as subdued accompaniment...
...superb B-flat Sonata (K. 333) Mr. Lewin also failed to achieve the abandon one might hope for, he yet gave it a fluent and sensitive reading to end this highly satisfying program...
...E.S.T.). he will lead a string orchestra or a chamber symphony in programs consisting of the works of younger U.S. composers and the less familiar pieces of more renowned Europeans ("We don't believe in segregation of music"). The first program: the Siciliano from a Bach sonata (arranged by Stokowski), a Concerto for Orchestra by Manhattan's Alan Hovhaness, 42, and a memorial performance of an Adagio by the late Nicolai Berezowsky...