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MUSIC

... of faith, sweat, and compromise. You'll never please everyone. Doubt less entrenched Prommers will regard the omission of Beethoven Nos 1 and 2 as an other step down the slippery slope. Mr Glock defends his progressive policy with con viction. We are not ...

Published: Saturday 18 June 1966
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 900 | Page: 47 | Tags: Review 

STARS IN THE MAKING

... opening concert, given by the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, con ducted by Eugene Ormandy, with the immaculate Solomon to play Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto. (August 21st.) One must simply hope that on this occasion at least, arty-crafty camera work will ...

Published: Wednesday 10 August 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1016 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A new director dazzles

... chilling (because utterly unsensational) study of life in a lunatic asylum. It is beautifully acted and it moved me deeply. Beethoven always gets me just here ...

Published: Wednesday 02 August 1961
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1061 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

A SLIGHT REDUCTION

... Richardson gives his noisiest performance ever as a multi-millionaire who is con fined to a wheelchair and mad about Mozart and Beethoven. In his mausoleum-like country house, music streams from loudspeakers on all floors but does nothing to soothe the savage ...

Published: Wednesday 13 May 1964
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1068 | Page: 52 | Tags: Review 

Revival of a Classic Thriller

... Edinburgh Festival. The ivork Mr. Solomon will be playing on this occasion is the Piano Concerto No. 3, in C. minor, by Beethoven. The orchestra will be the B.B.C. Symphony, under the conductorship of Sir Malcolm Sargent. Another con cert, which might ...

Published: Wednesday 26 August 1953
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1218 | Page: 14 | Tags: Review 

Music All the Way

... other day to ask about my taste in music. He had a bet on with a friend, he said, that my favourite composer was Bach or Beethoven, and that I should have a preference for chamber music. I can't imagine what made my corre spondent bet so rashly, but I ...

Published: Wednesday 12 January 1955
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1194 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

JESUS THROUGH THE EYES OF MARY

... 1809 he died, his long life spanning one of the greatest of all musical ages, and the period when Mozart at one end and Beethoven at the other were enriching the world with their genius. Joseph Haydn His Art, Times and Glory (Gollancz. 1 8s.) is a worthy ...

Published: Saturday 20 January 1951
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1675 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

Books

... first World War, finds refuge from his changed life in drink, while his wife finds hers in imaginary invalidism, playing Beethoven at night and reading verse. The son cooks, the elder daughter herds the sheep, the younger, a savage, barges into everything ...

Published: Wednesday 01 October 1952
Newspaper: Britannia and Eve
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1524 | Page: 66 | Tags: Review 

MUSIC AND MOTORS: The Careers of Artur Schnabel and Louis Renault; Autobiography of a Clippie; European Unity ..

... musician, and it is as a musician of wide appreciation as well as a brilliant pianist that he will be remembered. Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert were to him the three great composers and his interpretation of their music was unforget table. In Mr. Cesar ...

Published: Saturday 07 December 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1662 | Page: 34 | Tags: Review 

A SCOTSWOMAN IN EGYPT: Reminiscences of Seven Years in an Egyptian Village; Assessment of Toscanini; An Eye ..

... subject. THE TOSCANINI LEGACY (Putnam. 30s.) is a critical study, by Mr. Spike Hughes, of Arturo Toscanini's performances of Beethoven, Verdi, Brahms, Mozart and other composers' works. The legacy that Toscanini left behind him is really in two parts: the ...

Published: Saturday 04 April 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1794 | Page: 35 | Tags: Review 

THE VIVANDIÈRE PAR EXCELLENCE: Juana de Leon, Whose Romance with Harry Smith Provides a Dramatic and Vital Story

... d hypochondriac, an Englishwoman who believes that she has married beneath her and who finds her only solace in playing Beethoven sonatas. The elder daughter works as a sheepherder and spends most of the day in a saddle, but has a mute longing for some ...

Published: Saturday 09 August 1952
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1653 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A BOURBON OF BOURBONS: A Biography of a Seventeenth-century French Duchess; a Study of an Elizabethan Countess; ..

... frustrations and setbacks and, as he prepares for death, he decides that he will be ready to go and that Bach and Mozart, Beethoven and Brahms, will play me out. A sober but never a depressing book, objective to a degree and with an unornamented style ...

Published: Saturday 18 April 1959
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1787 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review