... there are no fewer than 20 available record ings of Bach's Second Brandenburg Con certo, for instance, together with 30 of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony and 19 of Brahms' Violin Concerto. (Incidentally, as barely one in ten of these performances is musically ...

... (cello). 11.0 am Sun 13 Feb Royal Festival Hall. Overture, Leo nora No 2: Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat; Symphony No 6 in F. Beethoven. Conductor Colin Davis. London Philharmonic Orch estra. Soloist: Wilhelm Kempff (piano). 7.30 Commonwealth Institute, Kensing ...

... purists no end, but which I find does nothing to harm a charming piece that deserves to be known for more than the fact that Beethoven lifted the tune from its overture to use in his Eroica symphony. Where the strictly purist approach to Mozart is undeniably ...

... beautiful woman to whom they all take immedi ately despite a disability repre sented in this production by tuba excerpts from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. It is she who whispers her version of the facts of life to the boy and, in doing so, helps to achieve Victor's ...

... collective results achieved RECORDS by this quartet are as remote from the accepted pattern of jazz as Schoenberg is from Beethoven. I bear no grudge against experiments, but this is one which seems to go beyond the bounds of public comprehension. Now I ...

... matches the performance. Other recommendations are The Miraculous Mandarin, with Dorati and the Chicago Symphony (Mercury) Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto No. 5, by j Cor de Groot, and The Hague Philharmonic, conducted by Van Otterloo (Philips) Chopin's ...

... movement of Tchaikovsky's (Pathetique) Symphony in B minor; the third movement of 'f Brahms' Symphony No. 1 in C minor, and the Beethoven Symphony No. 5 in C minor which Cantelli himself never lived to record beyond the second move- j ment contained on this ...

... Baptist in Siena, on which both Ghiberti and Donatello worked. Donatello, said our lecturer, was both the Shakespeare and the Beethoven of sculpture in the 15th century. And she pointed out, on top of the font, a cheerful, plump little putto of whom we were ...

... modern terms. The girl trying vainly to explain to her stony-faced mother the kind of joy that may come from listening to Beethoven executes a clumsy little dance which takes on the quality of ecstasy. Derivative or not, this is a most moving effect. But ...

... records. How many of his great recordings have been treated this way I do not know. Certainly his titanic set of the nine Beethoven symphonies has been done. To introduce this new scheme, however, RCA have chosen some near-pops by three well-contrasted ...

... performance is also an astounding and almost alarming display of virtuosity. nnrecords Pierre Fournier will play cello works by Beethoven at a joint concert with Wilhelm Kempff at the Royal Festival Hall on 1 Dec. I X (_> CO cr I z> X I cc I LU ...

... the dialogue in Fidelio, but I'm not; that's because it comes as a relief from the overwhelming emo tional intensity of Beethoven's music (those who still have the dialogue-less Toscanini Fidelio recording will know what mean). f In their new recording ...