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...Lalo: Violin Concerto In F (Miriam Solovieff; Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Henry Swoboda conducting; Concert Hall). A fiddler's standby, warmly played by talented U.S. Violinist Solovieff...
Last week before a Paris audience Frank Martin placed a major work: his new, half-hour-long Violin Concerto. Swiss Conductor Ernest Ansermet and Hungarian-born Violinist Joseph Szigeti made it a labor of love, took five curtain calls. Martin rose twice from his box seat, bowed shyly. Said Szigeti: "A truly-extraordinary concerto . . . It is caressingly sweet and yet it avoids all grandiloquence." Said Conductor Ansermet: "A great work...
...Paris shook him out of his native conservatism: he experimented with radical rhythmical structures, later with the twelve-tone technique, but absorbed only what he wanted from them and went his own way. His musical language now reflects both Schoenberg and Debussy, but its message is personal. The Violin Concerto conveys a sense of warmth and tragedy; his oratorio Golgotha expresses his profound religious feeling ; his Petite Symphonie Concertante has some of the pastoral air that the composer has breathed on hikes about Switzerland...
...composer are few: "I don't speak Dutch. I work in my corner." While he works, his music travels: his Symphonie Concertante will be played next season by the Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles and Rochester symphonies. Manhattan heard his Golgotha last winter, will hear Szigeti and the Violin Concerto next fall...
What to do about the barbarians? "We must leave the revolver," said Perón, "and try the violin, to see if it gives better results. Later there will be time to return to the revolver...