Concerts Reviewed

December 3, 1946 (Palais de Chaillot, Concerts Pasdeloup)

Le Carnaval romain, “Ouverture caractéristique,” op. 9, Hector Berlioz

Grande symphonie funèbre et triomphale, Hector Berlioz

Grande messe des morts (Requiem), Hector Berlioz

December 3, 1946 (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, solo recital)

Fantasia and fugue, Johann Sebastian Bach

B minor Piano Sonata, Franz Liszt

Mazurkas, op. 50, Karol Szymanowski

Variations, Karol Szymanowski

Nocturne in F-sharp major, op. 111-12, Fryderyk Chopin

Etude in C-sharp minor, op. 10, no. 4, Fryderyk Chopin

Waltz in C-sharp minor, op. 64, no. 2, Fryderyk Chopin

Scherzo in B minor, op. 20, Fryderyk Chopin

December 5, 1946 (Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, UNESCO Festival, Orchestre national)

Symphony no. 2, Roman Palester

Violin Concerto, Karol Szymanowski

Symphonic Variations, Witold Lutoslawski

Harnasie, Karol Szymanowski

December 6, 1946 (Conservatoire, Ars Rediviva)

Sinfonia, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Concerto, Georg Philipp Telemann

Dardanus, Jean-Phillipe Rameau

Lied, Philipp Heinrich Erlebach

Air, Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Violin Concerto, Jean-Marie Leclair

Prélude and Fugue in F-sharp minor, no. 14, BWV 859, Johann Sebastian Bach

Cantata, Bleib bei uns, den es will Aben warden, BWV 6, Johann Sebastian Bach

At the Concerts Colonne, La Damnation de Faust. At the Palais de Chaillot, Berlioz's Requiem. At the Conservatoire, a Mozart festival with the sublime Clarinet Concerto. At the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, a Malcuzyhski recital with Mazurkas by Szymanowski. At the Salle Gaveau, the Hewitt quartet, with Beethoven's fourth, tenth, and thirteenth quartets. At the public Radiodiffusion concert, Martinù, Mihalovici, Honegger, Harsanyi, Tcherepnin. At the Champs-Elysées, Palester, Szymanowski, Lutosiawski. At the Ecole Normale, Florent Schmitt. At the Salle Gaveau, Ars Rediviva, Handel, Vivaldi, Rameau, Erlebach, Pergolesi, Telemann, C. P. E. Bach, Leclair, J.-S. Bach. At l’Orchestre symphonique de chambre, Francoeur, Couperin, Lalande, Lully, Rameau, Marais, Mouret. At l’Oeuvre artistique française, Titelouze, Lebègue, Gobert, N. de Grigny, Bouzignac, Formé. Works also by A. Tansman, Marcel Landowski, Oubradous. And then, as well, Enescu, Mihalovici, Stan Golestan, Constantinesco.

This enumeration, very incomplete, is however typically representative enough of current musical activity, with its choices, its omissions or limits— its prejudices, perhaps.