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...Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 8 sides). One of the most ingratiating of all chamber-music compositions, Schubert's Trio, in a previous recording by Cortot, Thibaud and Casals, was once a sensational bestseller, today is out of print. Victor's new version, with the latest, most scrupulous sound engineering, is one of the finest chamber-music recordings ever made. Rubinstein, Heifetz and Feuermann (each a famed concert soloist) play its lilting melodies with virtuoso finish and a subtle teamwork seldom heard when prima donnas of this caliber get together...
France. Once closely associated were Pianist Alfred Cortot, Violinist Jacques Thibaud, Cellist Pablo Casals. Today thin, aging Pianist Cortot is a member of the Vichy State Council, ranks as guardian of France's musical tradition. Although in recent years he has conducted more than he has played, he still gives piano concerts. Violinist Thibaud, for a time heartbroken by the loss of a son in the war, now plays in Occupied and Unoccupied France. Cellist Casals, contrary to rumor, is not in concentration camp, although as a Catalan partisan of the Loyalists he is out of favor with...
...some of the old fire flashes through the Double Concerto. The first movement has a grand fervor and sweep, and the new recording communicates these qualities superbly. Unfortunately there was no opportunity to compare it side by side with the old one of the work, made years ago by Thibaud, Casals, and Cortot conducting Casals' orchestra. That set, one of the oldest in the Victor catalogue, has been recalled. However, it is safe to say that the performances in that version can hardly have excelled those in the new one. And both soloists and orchestra...
...being evidently tired to be constantly with the same group of people, told Chaplin that he would like to spend such an evening with us." Cinemactor Chaplin scuttled off to have tea with large, booming Basso Feodor Chaliapin. who agreed to give a party at his house. Violinists Jacques Thibaud and Elman were "invited, of course, and altogether we were 22 people. "It was the most informal affair I've ever been to. Everybody did and behaved just as they felt. Thibaud and I played the Double Concerto of Bach again. I'm sure that it was above...
Brahms' Double Concerto in A Minor by Violinist Jacques Thibaud, 'Cellist Pablo Casals and the Pablo Casals Orchestra of Barcelona under Alfred Cortct (Victor, $10)-Brahms last orchestral work, rarely played because of its technical difficulties, is given a superb per- formance by an unsurpassed triumvirate...