Word: violine
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...AFTERNOON CONCERT. Berwald, Symphony no. 6 in E flat; Ives, Violin sonata no. 4; Beethoven, Mass in C major; Faure, Piano quartet in C minor, no. 1; A. Scarlatti, Sinfonia in D minor; Schubert, String quartet no. 13; Messaien, Oiseaux exotiques...
...EVENING CONCERT. Bach, French suite no. 2; Elgar, Enigma variations; Schumann, Kinderscenen; Viotti, Violin concerto no. 22; Villa-Lobos, Bachianas Brasilieras...
Some of his musical maturity Lorin gets from growing up with the sound of a violin in his ear: his father is a violinist, a former assistant concertmaster for Toscanini with the NBC Symphony. Lorin got his first violin when he was three ("I smashed it"), went on to the piano when he was five, and in his first day at the keyboard went through an entire book of beginner's exercises. By the time he was ten, Lorin was playing recitals, and he has been hard at it ever since. He scored his second big recital triumph last...
...onto the Carnegie Hall stage hand in hand, as they had so often in the past. At first, in the Brahms Sonata in D Minor, they played a little tentatively, feeling their way with care. But by the time they got to Bartok's Sonata No. 1, the violin was soaring with impassioned assurance and the piano was spinning a lacy web of sound. After a fine performance of Beethoven's Sonata in A Major, the two performers joined hands again to take their smiling bows. Occasion: a joint recital of Violinist Yehudi Menuhin and his pianist sister...
...meantime, De Groot is filling out his concert season with old standbys, e.g., the Brahms version of Bach's Violin Chaconne, which he played last week to critical huzzahs on the Dutch radio. He is also rearranging pieces by Debussy, Grieg, Liszt, Rachmaninoff. And if the day should ever come when he exhausts both the old and the new repertories, he sees an almost endless future in recording. Under the name "Guy Sherwood," for instance, he appears in a radio series on which he plays numbers such as Kitten on the Keys, for which he has deftly recorded first...