Word: troth
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...together will their troth...
...Szigeti at his peak was that rare performer fully entitled to be called both a musicians' musician and a violinists' violinist. With Szigeti, the usual egoistic trappings of the virtuoso life took second place to a kind of earthy piety based on prodigious musical insight and a troth-like pledge between him and the composer. Here are some of his finest concerto recordings-notably the Brahms with Hamilton Harty (1928), the Beethoven with Bruno Walter (1932), the Prokofiev First, Mozart Fourth and the Mendelssohn with Sir Thomas Beecham (1933-35) and, at long last on LP, the Beethoven...
...countess's loyal stalwarts, he becomes her majordomo. He entices the daughter of a pair of rich social climbers into his amorous clutches while simultaneously achieving equal intimacy with the countess's son. He then ingeniously proposes that his duo of lovers plight their troth to each other so that he may always be true, in his fashion, to both. The countess is delighted, for the bride's dowry will bring in enough gold to fill the castle moat. Something for everyone, even before the plot reaches ludicrous heights of sadistic mayhem...
...with a tension that can never find release-even in the contemptuous dalliances that occupy his time. He talks constantly of his freedom, but he is incapable of breaking through into the real, accepting freedom of love. His only power is to destroy whatever he can touch-the innocent troth of a country girl, his own wife's selfless devotion, his father's love, a servant's self-respect. His obsessive sexuality is chillingly sexless...