| 单词 | scherzo |
| 例句 | With megaton amplification, the loud playing in the outer sections of two Chopin scherzos and in two pieces from Tchaikovsky’s “The Seasons” was deafening and soul-deadening. Review: Lang Lang at the Metropolitan Museum in the Service of Eastern Art 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z A disfigured dance erupts from the scherzo, oompah brass propelling this last movement along as the strings slip around chromatically. Los Angeles Philharmonic Plays Gorecki’s Fourth Symphony 2015-01-19T05:00:00Z The second movement, “Profanation,” is a turbulent scherzo with hints of jazzy intensity. Not Just ‘West Side Story’: Celebrating Bernstein’s Symphonies 2017-10-20T04:00:00Z The scherzo was emphatic without ever turning pumped-up or bloated. Music Review: A Couple of First Encounters, One Including Musicians 2011-06-03T22:30:31Z From its truculent first movement on through the moto perpetuo scherzo, to the buoyant finale, Bringuier and the players conveyed the spirit as well as the letter of the music with easy assurance. Prom 36: BBCSO/Bringuier 2010-08-13T10:48:00Z Prokofiev's gigantic musical scherzo goes well under Leo Hussain's crisp and observant baton, its stunning repertoire of modernist paraphernalia vigorously purveyed by the English Chamber Orchestra. The Love for Three Oranges 2010-06-18T22:40:00Z The third movement is like some intergalactic Mendelssohn scherzo. Music Review: Revisiting an Annual Rite of Beethoven and Sibelius 2011-03-01T22:13:44Z Rather than CDs containing all the scherzos or mazurkas, he chose instead to mix genres, with the result being an unusually refreshing listening experience. Taking Philip Glass to a place he need not go 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z Mr. Dohnanyi brought lyrical grace to the Romance, sweeping energy to the scherzo and welcome coherence to the episodic finale. Music Review: Beethoven?s Varied Descendants 2011-01-14T23:03:20Z The scherzo, with its pizzicato strings, was crisp and playful, made intriguing by a hint of obsession. Thomas Adès Brings Fresh Wildness to the Boston Symphony 2019-03-21T04:00:00Z Mr. Nelsons persuasively stressed the humor in the scherzo and the wildness in the Rondo-Burleske. Music Review: A Fresh Face Confronts a Seasoned Mahler 2011-03-18T22:24:01Z The scherzo underwhelmed too, its ghostly sides missing elements of the grotesque. Michael Tilson Thomas and San Francisco Symphony at Carnegie Hall 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z Still, I wanted more urgency in the first movement, more attack and vigor in the scherzo. Music Review: Vienna Philharmonic Plays the Ninth Symphony 2014-02-26T22:13:26Z Bannister also pushed the tempo of the second movement so fast that the scherzo felt more vengeful than playful, making the hand crossings in the trio a little awkward. Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection A surging first movement is followed by a restless scherzo, a generously lyrical slow movement and an impetuous finale that sounds fantastical on the surface but is run through with polyphonic passages. Classical Recordings: Schumann: Complete Works for Piano Trio 2011-08-27T04:00:27Z It remains more lyrical than some of his others: the scherzo, for instance, less driving, and the full second movement with an almost Hollywood air to its grandiloquence, at least in Eschenbach’s reading. Under Eschenbach, NSO pays dutiful homage to greatness 2017-03-16T04:00:00Z As robust and earthy as the Debussy is delicate, the piece is built around a scherzo that explodes with wild, what-the-hell exuberance. Kennedy Center Chamber Players open the season with evocative, varied program In a scherzo section, about 10 minutes in, brighter colors suddenly appear. Hurricane Mama's impressive set of pipes 2014-11-21T05:00:00Z He was best known for his Chopin performances and this set includes waltzes, polonaises, scherzos and the Second Concerto. Classical Playlist: Bruckner, Igor Kamenz and More 2014-10-01T04:00:00Z The opera is structured like a classical symphony, with a sonata-form opening movement, a scherzo, an adagio and a passacaglia finale. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2012-03-23T22:47:08Z The third movement is like a rustic scherzo with pungent passages for winds. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Carl Nielsen Symphony 2012-06-15T21:52:06Z Using the 1976 Deryck Cooke completion, he elicited a supple, involving account of the opening Adagio, and though there were momentary ensemble problems early in the first scherzo, they were quickly resolved. Music Review: Daniel Harding Conducts New York Philharmonic in Mahler 2011-12-03T00:28:20Z These two movements frame a central ghostly scherzo. Music Review: Embracing the Ambiguity of Mahler?s Seventh 2011-02-24T23:27:09Z The center section is a vast scherzo that seems to say it is time to move on. Twigs break, cans bang and L.A. Philharmonic soars with Mahler 2014-10-03T04:00:00Z The suite includes a delicate andantino and a kind of scattered scherzo conclusion. Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes makes every detail count at the Kennedy Center 2015-11-15T05:00:00Z With the exception of Chopin’s “Funeral March” Sonata, the works were preludes, études, nocturnes, scherzos: the kind of shorter, dazzlingly colorful, crowd-pleasing pieces that Horowitz, too, used to stuff his programs. Music Review: Lola Astanova in Horowitz Tribute at Carnegie Hall - Review 2012-01-21T00:44:23Z Although her eyes remained glued to the music, she still misread/miscounted several spots in the scherzo, and her intonation was not always secure. Cellist Cicely Parnas is still impressive in second D.C. recital, but there are caveats But this sonata, written in 1978, takes expressive tension to neurotic heights, pushing the cello line to near breaking point in the two slow movements that frame a furious scherzo. Music Review: Wendy Sutter and Olga Vinokur Perform at Bargemusic 2013-07-15T21:40:35Z The first movement went at a tremendous, irresistible pace, the slow one stayed just on the right side of sentimentality, the scherzo was a tissue of delicate tracery, the finale joyously affirmative. Daniel Hope and Friends 2010-09-29T20:59:00Z The longest movement in the symphony, it has a gloriously triumphant ending, making this movement a highlight of the recording, followed by a high-octane scherzo that bubbles over into the finale. ‘The Weber Sisters’ throw fresh light on Mozart vocalism 2016-02-04T05:00:00Z The brutal power of the scherzo’s main theme was chilling, with the orchestra pummeling the dense, thick, dissonance-tinged chords. Music Review: Simon Rattle and Berlin Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall 2012-02-26T21:18:46Z “I think of composers I love — whether Verdi’s ‘Falstaff’ or Beethoven’s scherzos, or even those weird moments in Mahler where there’s humor,” Adams said. A Battle of Boos and Cheers at the Symphony 2021-04-16T04:00:00Z Similarly the scherzo and the animated finale, with its hints of folk tunes and dances, were at once enticing and exasperating in this acoustic. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Memorial Day Concert 2013-05-28T20:23:42Z Chopin’s ethereal nocturnes, poetic ballades, audacious scherzos, aptly titled impromptus and lacy waltzes often sound like written-out improvisations. ArtsBeat: The Top 10 Composers: The Romantics 2011-01-19T12:00:08Z The tiny, evanescent scherzo and breathtaking prestissimo finale both introduce quarter-tones, giving a fuzzy strangeness to some of the harmonies. NYO/Bychkov 2010-08-08T11:33:00Z The second movement was most successful, in its graceful second theme especially, and the scherzo was feather-light. Young players bolstered by pros in last classical performance at Castleton 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z In the Second, that meant unusually expansive readings of the first two movements, offset by speedy accounts of the scherzo and the finale. Music Review: Ivan Fischer Offers Beethoven at Alice Tully Hall 2010-03-26T20:50:00Z The scherzo whisked by, bordering on the frantic yet never crossing that line. Gianandrea Noseda Conducts Beethoven at Mostly Mozart 2014-08-13T04:00:00Z The pulse of the scherzo was insistent in a nervy, exciting fashion that contrasted well with the luxurious way Mr. Dudamel lingered over the third movement’s airier meditations. Review: Dudamel and Los Angeles Bring the Noise to New York 2018-04-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Gilbert emphasized gentleness wherever possible — and sometimes where you wouldn’t think it possible, as in the third-movement scherzo, a ghostly dance that was here neither ghostly nor dancey. Review: Alan Gilbert Leaves the Philharmonic, Violin in Hand 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z The Brahms quintet took time to cohere, and it was not until the andante and the spiky scherzo that Kovacevich's playing settled into its familiar balanced directness. Stephen Kovacevich 70th birthday ? review 2010-10-18T21:30:00Z The posthorn solo that stops the gambolling scherzo in its tracks was short on its ambiguous mix of nostalgia and eeriness. Berlin Philharmonic/Rattle ? review 2011-02-24T08:53:46Z Everything was scrupulously presented and the inner detail refined, but in the huge span of the opening movement and the patchwork of the scherzo, one section never related meaningfully to the next. Proms 24 & 25: BBCSSO: London Sinfonietta 2010-08-05T10:57:00Z He whirled through both scherzo and finale with devil-may-care panache. Classical Philharmonia/Maazel/Trifonov – review 2012-12-14T17:30:01Z Yet nothing is quite as condensed as the Seventh Symphony itself: a summation of a lifetime's reshaping of symphonic form, compressed into a single movement barely longer than a Mahlerian scherzo. BBC Phil/Storgårds – review 2013-06-14T16:30:56Z There is more anguish here, starting with the first movement’s plangent theme, and returning in full force in the more violent sections of the second scherzo and much of the finale. Music Review: Daniel Harding Conducts New York Philharmonic in Mahler 2011-12-03T00:28:20Z Then there is Beatrice Rana in her remarkable new recording of the second book, along with the four scherzos. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z The slow movement did not plod, and the third movement was a pleasing combination of playful scherzo and leisurely trio. Review | Asian Youth Orchestra, Chang play favorites to sound of crickets 2017-08-10T04:00:00Z Adhering mostly to Classical models, it did break new ground by, for example, replacing the traditional third-movement minuet with a scherzo. Music Review: From Mahler, Love, Despair, Fairy Tales And Animals 2010-12-03T22:40:00Z Dudamel centred the work, however, in its scherzo, with its collisions between mockery and violence. Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic ? review 2011-01-28T00:29:54Z Not for him the glitter and playfulness others find in the scherzo, but rather weight and menace, as if to pre-empt the passacaglia finale, itself engrossing yet ambivalent here. Review: Manfred Honeck Coaxes a Burnished Sound From the New York Philharmonic 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z After an explosive scherzo, Vogt’s chords introducing the slow movement evoked sepulcher doors swinging open to reveal the ghastly inroads of decay inside. Review | Tetzlaff-Tetzlaff-Vogt Trio’s combined musical voice impresses at Library of Congress 2019-05-05T04:00:00Z He highlighted the buzzing inner voices and lush harmonic details in the scherzo. Music Review: Lionel Bringuier Leads Philharmonic by Himself 2013-06-14T19:16:12Z So the crowd starts to dance, evoking the scherzo of the second movement … What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z This rewarding album includes beautiful accounts of Schubert’s Rondo in B minor and Sonata in A. The sonata is also pretty hard, especially the restless scherzo. New Recordings: Schubert Fantasie by Carolin Widmann and Alexander Lonquich 2012-07-08T03:53:04Z Mr. Pace produced some exquisite colors particularly in the poetic moments, and there was humor and bite in the scherzos and folk-inflected passages. Music Review: Leonidas Kavakos and Enrico Pace at Zankel Hall 2014-03-05T23:16:12Z We were less conscious of the faults of proportion in the awkwardly unrevised scherzo than on previous occasions. BBCPhil/Noseda 2010-06-08T21:31:00Z The first of the two scherzos is on the slow side and in places lacks bite. Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 – review 2013-03-07T22:14:01Z The scherzo actually was nimble, its danciness of an irresistibly elegant Viennese variety. Welser-Möst and the Cleveland Orchestra Head to Lincoln Center Festival 2015-07-09T04:00:00Z But there were also moments of great delicacy, as with the evanescent pizzicatos at the end of the symphony’s Vivace non troppo movement, a quintessential Mendelssohn scherzo in all but name. Review: The Academy of Ancient Music Tackled Mendelssohn at Mostly Mozart Festival 2015-08-10T04:00:00Z But there are moments of brightness and energy in the first scherzo, and the work ends with breathtaking serenity. Music Review: Daniel Harding Conducts New York Philharmonic in Mahler 2011-12-03T00:28:20Z “Mercury, the Winged Messenger,” is a like a brilliant, scintillating scherzo, with the orchestral colorings of Debussy’s “Jeux” yet ominously spiked with sledgehammer chords. 2010-01-30T13:26:00Z The symphony is bursting with ideas that sound like no other composer, such as the honeyed melodies, the fairy-dancing scherzos and the build-up of energy to the flavorful bursting point. Generous renditions of Mendelssohn and Bach balance youth and experience 2015-12-04T05:00:00Z It did, but the orchestra also delivered blistering immediacy of response, alive with attack and full of tension in the first movement, spontaneously rustic in the scherzo. Fabio Luisi Leads Juilliard Orchestra in Wagner and Mozart 2014-10-15T04:00:00Z They had to make decisions, like determining whether a sketch indicated the starting point of a scherzo, which is a very lively part of the symphony, typically in the third movement. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z The soloist in the concerto was Leila Josefowicz, finely attuned both to the ambivalent sense of calm-before-the-storm nostalgia that pervades the outer movements, and the flippant brilliance of the scherzo with its Classical Symphony overtones. LSO/Zhang ? review 2011-04-06T18:00:29Z The narration has the pace and inevitability of a scherzo, even its ominous moments told with a playful fluidity and irony. Tempting Fate With a Season of Romance, Sex, Art and Destiny 2018-02-09T05:00:00Z The scherzo skipped along with mischievousness and rhythmic bite. Review: Yuja Wang Tackles Beethoven’s ‘Hammerklavier,’ Assured to a Fault 2016-05-15T04:00:00Z The middle movement is a frenetic, biting scherzo; the finale, a purposeful, somber passacaglia. National Youth Orchestra Flexes Its Muscles at Carnegie Hall 2014-07-23T04:00:00Z And there was some terrific playing: A shout-out goes to the flutes, and to the horns that plunged lustily into the hunting-like calls in the scherzo. Herbert Blomstedt illuminates Beethoven, joyously, with the NSO 2015-02-27T05:00:00Z What followed was sometimes conflicted, sometimes playful, as col legno thuds halted the swaggering first nocturne in its tracks, and moments of exaggerated sensuality swelled the shadowy central scherzo. DSO Berlin/Metzmacher 2010-08-11T10:58:00Z The final scherzo movement sees the classical man set upon rather amusingly by the modern woman. City Ballet Arrived Early, With Revelations 2010-10-15T16:58:00Z The scherzo was witty without being winsome, and the finale wonderfully controlled and purposeful. Bournemouth SO/Karabits/Lewis – review 2013-04-11T17:21:53Z Mr. Welser-Möst brought structural shape to the run-on scherzo, which is not easy. Music Review: An Unlikely Pair, Making Musical Sense 2011-07-14T23:06:24Z After the touch of explosive fire in the scherzo, the third movement's more sombre lines built their own tension. BSO/Kyrill Karabits 2010-10-11T21:01:00Z The scherzo from the first symphony is a wow moment, the strings careening on a knife-edge but perfectly together. CD reviews: Tetzlaff takes on Czech masters; Seattle’s Dutilleux 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Like the Rondo-Burleske movement of Mahler’s Ninth, it is a scherzo—or “joke”—episode that intensifies a sense of crisis instead of providing comic relief. Revisiting a Symphonic AIDS Memorial 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z Yet Bell was at his formidable best in the tiny bustling scherzo, hitting the notes in an often barely audible whisper, and cutting loose in the finale’s rambunctious coda. L.A. Chamber Orchestra gets a hand from Joshua Bell and guest conductor Jaime Martín 2017-10-01T04:00:00Z The third movement, a ponderous scherzo, is not so effective. Music Review | Riccardo Muti: Seldom-Heard Symphony Resurfaces as a Novelty 2010-03-05T21:23:00Z He conveyed the music’s ambiguity where it seems unmistakable, in the second movement, for example, which hovered here between a bucolic dance and a grotesquerie of a scherzo. Music Review: A Visitor Arrives, Armed With a Sprawling Score 2011-02-11T22:52:48Z There was plenty of fire in Mr. Ax’s playing, though he brought silken sound to the wistfully lyrical middle section of the first scherzo and magisterial beauty to the contrasting episode of the third. Emanuel Ax and Stephen Hough Explore the French Side of Chopin 2015-05-11T04:00:00Z The sloppy beginning of the march/scherzo could’ve been avoided if he’d conducted in four rather than in two, but perhaps it will go better tonight. National Symphony Orchestra brings a mélange to the Kennedy Center 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z Opening with a dense and driven opening, it sweeps across an arc of two scherzos and a shadowy middle movement, before dancing itself nearly to death in the full-throttle close. Review | Jupiter String Quartet delivers on its name with an out-of-this-world performance 2017-03-27T04:00:00Z In the second movement, a sort of hardy scherzo, Mr. van Zweden captured the heavy-footed, folk-dance spirit, though the playing was almost rigidly emphatic. Music Review: Philharmonic, With Jaap van Zweden Conducting Yuja Wang 2012-04-13T20:58:17Z After that First Symphony — first movement, as it were — the Second came as a sort of scherzo, gamboling through old folk and hymn tunes, with “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean” as anchor. Critic’s Notebook: Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-13T22:06:48Z The audience would not stop applauding, though, so he complied with the impish scherzo from Beethoven’s Sonata No. 2 in A. The Pianist Rafal Blechacz at Zankel Hall 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z Mr. Zacharias also led lithe interpretations of the other four movements, including joyous renditions of the energetic first and final movements and the lilting second movement scherzo, which Schumann initially called “Morning on the Rhine.” Music Review: Schumann and Zimmermann at Carnegie Hall 2010-03-22T21:20:00Z The work’s four movements include a solemn prelude, a scherzo marked “il più presto possibile” that quotes Wagner’s “Meistersinger,” a rhapsodic interlude and a spirited rondo that evokes the music of the Argentine pampas. Music Review: Rhythms Rise Up From the Pampas 2011-03-11T23:45:18Z The scurrying, protean scherzo is filled with all sorts of unexpected orchestral colors and twists. Composer Elliott Carter’s symphonic gift for the SSO 2013-01-31T23:01:18Z The way he tears into the first of the scherzos, the B minor, never allows its drama to register, and his treatment of the third and fourth is equally wayward. Chopin: Scherzos; Nocturnes; Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit, etc - review 2011-08-18T21:05:01Z Chopin's four scherzos, here interwoven with three nocturnes, demand a grasp of structure, especially the wild No 1 in B minor, which more experienced pianists struggle to convey. Benjamin Grosvenor: Chopin, Liszt, Ravel ? review 2011-07-16T23:06:06Z At an early rehearsal, he said, “Gentlemen, there are no difficulties or problems. This is a scherzo with a fatal conclusion.” The Endless, Grisly Fascination of Richard Strauss’s “Salome” 2019-08-21T04:00:00Z There was tragedy and majesty in the slow movement, genuine dash at last in the scherzo and a whopper of a pause before the turbocharged coda of the finale. An idiosyncratic ride with the Bamberg Symphony and Ray Chen at CAP UCLA 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Like Lewis, like Ludwig: if he can master the impossibilities of his own teenage scherzo, the Beethoven concertos should be a cinch. Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z The second movement, an agitated scherzo with an anguished cadenza at its core, shows off Gabetta’s muscle and dexterity. CD reviews: Music that conjures emotionally charged spaces. 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z The delicate scherzo was sparkingly articulated by the Liverpool orchestra, and the impact of the Albert Hall organ in the final movement emphasised the real architecture of the interpretation. RLPO/Petrenko 2010-07-20T21:30:00Z Mr. Bronfman then showed off his powerhouse technique in Liszt’s “Paganini” Étude No. 2 in E flat and the scherzo from Prokofiev’s Sonata No. 2 in D minor. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman at Carnegie Hall 2010-04-14T21:48:00Z And he repurposed a scherzo passage in his Fifth Symphony, written during World War II. The Tortured History Behind Prokofiev’s ‘Romeo and Juliet’ 2018-01-23T05:00:00Z Underpinning the piece is the impatient rhythmic motif from the scherzo of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Review: John Adams Wrestles the Ghosts of His Musical Fathers 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z It opens with a marching, vibrant first movement, followed by a scherzo driven by perpetual-motion runs for strings. 5 Classical Music Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-12-30T05:00:00Z The tension is released in “Flying,” conceived as a whirling, jittery and virtuosic scherzo. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Plays Steven Stucky’s Symphony 2012-11-30T21:46:43Z He concentrated on the musical architecture in the first movement at the expense of its snarling bad temper, and treated the scherzo almost as light relief. LPO/V?nks? - review 2010-10-17T21:31:00Z Both scherzos, for example, are sprightly and light-spirited, but the second is strikingly more sophisticated, rhythmically and harmonically. CD Review: Faur? Quartets by Trio Wanderer 2010-07-04T05:18:00Z Next, because the continuation of a phrase also needs to follow a certain musical form, whether it's a scherzo, trio or fugue, the AI needed to learn Beethoven's process for developing these forms. How a team of musicologists and computer scientists completed Beethoven’s unfinished 10th Symphony 2021-10-09T04:00:00Z No less curious is the third movement, a faster-tempo episode in the nature of a scherzo. Cult Fame and Its Discontents 2015-01-30T05:00:00Z The pianist was at his best in his Russian virtuoso mode, tearing through the scherzo in a white-hot performance. Review: In ‘With You, Armenia,’ Kissin and Others Honor the Slaughtered 2015-05-27T04:00:00Z His scherzo had a wonderfully light air about it. Review: The Philadelphia Orchestra Returns, With Force 2022-09-30T04:00:00Z Mr. Znaider embraced Nielsen’s characteristic swift shifts of mood, from aggressive scherzo to arching lyricism. Music Review: New York Philharmonic Performs Carl Nielsen’s Works 2012-10-11T22:30:40Z The second-movement scherzo was especially notable for the way Mr. Gaffigan projected the music’s sarcasm and manic intensity, but youthful energy shone everywhere in this riveting account. Critic?s Notebook: Another Season of Change for Spoleto 2011-06-03T22:42:46Z "Oh, that's a scherzo I wrote when I was 15 or 16, I think. Let's have a go – it's actually impossible to play." Five difficult pieces 2010-04-22T22:00:00Z The scherzo was distinctly rustic in flavor but not too heavy-footed, with raspy woodwinds and a rudely swaggering waltz. Haitink's Mahler 9th makes superb season finale for CSO 2011-06-03T17:59:36Z A tenderly lyrical yet quizzical slow movement leads to a misbehaving scherzo, and then a herculean finale. Hear 7 of the Best Works From a Neglected Era of American Music 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z The Dutch painter Piet Mondrian is the subject of Part 3, which could be the scherzo of “De Materie.” Review: ‘De Materie,’ of Matter, Spirit and Sheep 2016-03-23T04:00:00Z The minuet was exquisite, and the wonder and sadness of the subsequent scherzo were immaculately done. RLPO/Vasily Petrenko 2010-05-24T21:31:00Z Mr. Gergiev and his players reveled in the grotesquerie and strangeness of this fractured symphonic scherzo. Mariinsky Orchestra Makes Mahler Russian 2010-10-18T16:07:00Z She brought relentless drive to the jumpy scherzo without turning it forceful. Music Review: Alice Sara Ott at Le Poisson Rouge 2013-06-07T22:48:13Z The Pastoral breathed an air of quiet elation and optimistic calm in which both the Dionysian scherzo and the violence of the storm sequence seemed contained rather than intrusive. LSO/Davis ? review 2011-03-23T17:41:58Z The first movement lacked a real sense of direction; the scherzo, taken at a tremendous lick, flared briefly, but the emotional depths of the slow movement following it were never really explored. BBCSSO/Runnicles 2010-08-04T10:57:00Z The second movement, a curious, playful scherzo with syrupy melodic bits leads to a dark, harmonically raw Adagio. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z Opera North's so-called "austerity Ring" continues to astonish, nowhere more so, perhaps, than with Siegfried, sometimes dubbed the cycle's scherzo, and the opera in which interpretative and directorial inspiration has a habit of faltering. Siegfried – review 2013-06-18T17:08:25Z With his sparkling tunic catching the light, Mr. Huxley flew through the beaten jumps of the vigorous scherzo with not just speed, but lucidity. Review: City Ballet Debuts in Season Finale 2015-06-08T04:00:00Z Some movements hew loosely to traditional forms like the fugue and the scherzo. Review: ‘The Night Dances,’ With Charlotte Rampling and Sonia Wieder-Atherton 2015-04-24T04:00:00Z The last movement, a scherzo rife with vivid woodwind melodies, proved the highlight of the work. Music Review: A Tour of Two Continents: Jaunty Mexican Musings to Somber Cosmic Questions 2011-03-27T22:09:35Z When we turn over, into the scherzo, are we in a totally different world? Schubert’s Final Acceptance, Rueful as Always 2016-08-01T04:00:00Z Many conductors treat the third-movement scherzo as an exercise in dance rhythm; here, the energy was certainly propulsive, but Thomas also coaxed out a riot of colors and textures. Michael Tilson Thomas Revels in the Present With the New York Phil 2023-03-10T05:00:00Z Balance and phrasing were impeccable, dynamics expressive, technique excellent at all times; light, crisp and clean in the very fast scherzo movement. St. Petersburg String Quartet makes accomplished Seattle debut 2014-02-24T19:45:19Z A final movement brings resolution by recalling the questioning music that opened the piece, along with hints of the scherzo. Music Review: Yefim Bronfman Plays Works by Living Composers 2014-01-14T22:34:57Z Beginning with his briskly paced interpretation of the opening Andante, he elicited taut, incisive playing, particularly in the vivacious scherzo and exuberant finale. Music Review: New York Philharmonic, Led by Christoph von Dohnanyi 2012-03-23T22:47:08Z He deftly dispatched the feisty scherzo and ended with a supple account of the dancing rondo, played with impressive lightness and clarity. | New York Chamber Music Festival: Connecting the Dots Between 2 Composers 2010-09-17T04:00:00Z The opera's charm and gentle humour nowadays feel low key, but Cornelius's admirers have always argued that the score – a through-composed series of scherzos with orientalist flourishes – is decades ahead of its time. The Barber of Baghdad 2010-07-09T21:01:00Z Mr. Ohlsson performed the scherzo in the first half of the program, which sounded significantly less committed than the preludes in the second. 2010-02-06T07:43:00Z The scherzo was taken, I think, a fraction more slowly than in previous years, and if anything gained thereby in rhythmic precision. 'Ode to Joy': Seattle Symphony delivers a rapturous rendition of Beethoven's Ninth 2010-12-30T21:22:04Z Elsewhere, however, Rozhdestvensky is particularly good at cumulative tension: the gathering dissonances of the first movement, the relentless pace of the second scherzo and the formal grief of the passacaglia are immaculately judged. Shostakovich: Symphony No 8 – review 2013-03-07T22:14:01Z The B-minor scherzo that finished the program’s first half offered tangles of feeling seen from a great height: It was up to the listener to undergo them, not the performer. Review | A pianist offers the shape of emotion and brilliance 2017-05-17T04:00:00Z Lasting about an hour, the symphony sandwiches a tiny scherzo between two massive outer movements that present their events in highly unusual ways. Seattle Symphony to pair masterpieces by Shostakovich, Stravinsky 2016-05-31T04:00:00Z After it, the scherzo is an almost throwaway relaxation and the slow movement a gorgeously expansive hymn. Beethoven: Piano Sonatas Op 2 no 3 and Op 106, etc – review 2012-11-07T15:46:44Z Some of the most impressive playing comes in the appropriately driven scherzo, setting the stage for the mighty organ chord that commences the finale, captured here in great detail and fully dimensional sonority. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z Her scintillating accounts of the scherzos deftly balance bursts of breathless passagework and plaintive lyricism. 5 Classical Albums to Hear Right Now 2021-10-28T04:00:00Z Once the excitable St. Lawrence enters, those dotted Beethoven rhythms from the scherzos of his late quartets and symphonies become manic. A serious Beethoven in John Adams' latest 'Absolute Jest' 2016-09-30T04:00:00Z The vigorous, feisty second movement is like a cross between a symphonic scherzo and an Eastern European dance. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z In the driving scherzo, with its pounding chords and gnashing dissonance, played at a quicker tempo than you usually hear, Mr. Nézet-Séguin emphasized the wild, brutal elements of this vehement music. Music Review: Philadelphia Orchestra Performs at Carnegie Hall 2014-05-04T21:35:50Z The squealing string glissandos of the scherzo are deliciously creepy. Boisterous, novel effects on Prokofiev by Baltimore Symphony programmer 2015-07-16T04:00:00Z Doing something similar, Mr. Adams chose fragments of scherzo movements from Beethoven’s late string quartets and other bits of Beethoven. For John Adams, a Day of Music, Not Protests 2014-10-20T04:00:00Z Lortie prefaces each of the scherzos with a nocturne in a related key as well, providing moments of relieving calm between the cascading pyrotechnics, and ends the disc with the sonata. Chopin: Scherzos; Sonata No 2, etc 2010-07-01T21:35:00Z It is not weighty music — rather, as its title suggests, a giant scherzo sparkling with imagination and wit. CD Reviews: John Adams’s musical jokes 2015-11-05T05:00:00Z The rocketing scherzo with its syncopations sounded like a natural fit for Carpenter’s aggressive virtuosity, but the finale splintered inconclusively, with soloist and orchestra failing to unite in a common point. Review | NSO gets off to an energetic, all-American start 2017-09-28T04:00:00Z From the emphatic opener to the scherzo’s heroic chords, the pianist’s versatility and inventiveness were evident. Review | Zoltan Fejervari shows off his technique with a program of gems 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z Even the scherzo, which can be craggy, had a wonderful malleable quality. Review | An old hand shines anew in Bruckner 2019-10-10T04:00:00Z The first movement recalled the Handel suite, too, with its many trills and upward flourishes, while the second movement, recalling Beethoven’s scherzo, was diverting in its metrical shifts and sudden accents. Pianist Tanya Bannister at the Phillips Collection Brahms’s and Dohnanyi’s scherzos are not so much playful romps as intense and mysterious explorations. | Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center: Beginning the Season With a Show of Restraint 2010-09-22T22:08:00Z The third movement is a scherzo featuring a dazzling vocal cadenza, from metallic throat singing to aggressive declamation. Music Review: Ensemble ACJW at Zankel Hall 2014-05-11T20:28:02Z The piano rings out first with a Chopin scherzo, and we see how some people “snapped their glasses cases as they tried well-meaningly to catch up with the leaping flood of sound.” Music, Fiction, and the Value of Attention 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony began with a first movement even more obsessively tight-lipped than usual, so that the scherzo — no joke! — that follows came as an utterly logical release of tension. Review: At SSO, music both new and attractive 2011-06-03T18:20:54Z And the way he dispatched the playful theme of the scherzo, the leaping, rolled chords sounded like, well, chirping birds. Music Review: Mostly Mozart Festival with Jean-Efflam Bavouzet, Shai Wosner 2012-08-12T19:54:07Z He was aiming for a startling juxtaposition, of a rapid plunge from the deceptive bliss of the scherzo to the profound despair of the Adagio Lamentoso. Review: Yo-Yo Ma and Wu Man Play With Cinematic Sweep 2019-03-07T05:00:00Z A misbehaving scherzo hurtles along, leading to a complex finale, exuberant yet imposing in its sweep and structure. A Symphony With Powerful Champions, but Often Overlooked 2016-11-16T05:00:00Z What we call the Piano Quartet in A minor — written around 1876, when Mahler was 16 — was intended as the first movement of a larger piece, otherwise represented by only 24 bars of a scherzo. Music Review: In Mahler?s Chamber, a Radical Departure 2011-06-16T22:12:01Z The second movement is not a slow movement, which was normal at the time: It’s a scherzo, a brutal scherzo. What Comes Before Beethoven’s ‘Ode to Joy’? 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z Ditto the scherzo — a sprint of 16th notes that he articulated with brilliance and clarity. Review | At Carnegie Hall, a road-ready NSO delivers a show of sonic force 2023-04-19T04:00:00Z The movement was most arresting for the ensemble’s energy, which lent sufficient drama to the many musical gasps that Beethoven inserts to regain the scherzo’s composure. Review | Emerson String Quartet launches its long goodbye at Wolf Trap 2022-12-10T05:00:00Z A bulldozer of a scherzo intensified what was a lingering menace, and the fourth movement rondo released it from its cage. Review | Noseda and the NSO find a recipe for success: It’s an Italian sandwich 2022-10-28T04:00:00Z And the scherzo did deliver some welcome sizzle, here and there. Review | Gil Shaham, the NSO and Mother Nature take Wolf Trap by storm 2022-08-06T04:00:00Z Taylor’s entrance into the scherzo was nimble but overwhelmingly wonky, tunewise — a hippo on ice skates. Review | PostClassical Ensemble gives Mahler’s 4th symphony ‘A Wicked New Look’ 2022-04-21T04:00:00Z The second movement, a galloping scherzo in triple time, was brimming with character, and benefited greatly from Cox’s locomotive approach. Review | Two rising stars light up the National Symphony Orchestra 2022-04-08T04:00:00Z Lin Ma’s serpentine clarinet was a thrill to hear, and the swooning core of the scherzo held some of the most honeyed horn work of the evening. Review | Tilson Thomas and the NSO breathe new life into the ‘Resurrection’ 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z There’s the scherzo where rejection to study conducting at her violin alma mater Juilliard spurs creativity in her 20s, and she starts an all-female swing ensemble with string instruments and later her own classical orchestra. Review: Marin Alsop is an admirable agent for change in the documentary 'The Conductor' 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z A crackling scherzo was followed by a finale steeped in the piece’s revolutionary spirit, Noseda fanning the flames on either side of the stage into a combustible crescendo. Noseda and the NSO reveal more to be heard in Beethoven’s Third 2022-01-28T05:00:00Z Again, this really is a symphony, with thematic development and the trappings of a slow movement, a scherzo and a finale to end all finales. Miss the ecstasy and extravagance of Mahler's Eighth? You're not alone 2020-10-28T04:00:00Z For thrills and virtuosity, check out the seismic reverberations of the double basses taking up the charge in the trio section of the scherzo at the bottom of the sonic spectrum. Review: Beethoven's Fifth is the music of our moment. How Teodor Currentzis makes it so 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z “The Whistlers,” a sleek, sharply chiseled scherzo of a movie, represents both a continuation of this exploration and a bit of a departure. Review: The sharp heist-thriller pleasures of ‘The Whistlers’ translate into any language 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z Then it began to lift in the buoyant, yet still weighty, scherzo followed by the Finale as I’ve never heard it before. Review: With Jaime Martín in the driver's seat, LACO concert is a thrill ride 2019-09-30T04:00:00Z There was, however, plenty of rhythm in the scherzo, and the finale had a sometimes playful question-and-answer character. Jeremy Denk plays with time, and the program, at the Wallis 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z The scherzo was allowed its craziness, San Francisco style. MTT takes Mahler to a new level in San Francisco Symphony tour 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z But in the end, it is the wit, warmth and coherence of Lynskey’s performance that lends this violent comic scherzo both its cruelly demented narrative logic and its curiously cheery aftertaste. Melanie Lynskey raises hell in the bloody dark comedy 'I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore' 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Strings bubbled for the Third’s scherzo, and horns could have not played more delicately. Sir Simon Rattle on Beethoven: brilliant and perhaps insane 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Strings bubbled for the Third's scherzo, and horns could have not played more delicately. Rattle on Beethoven: 'His most intelligent contemporaries thought that he was insane' 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z Steinway Which of these, technically speaking, is not a musical term: scherzo, staccato, sequestrationo? The Marines Are Buying a $90k Piano 2013-07-25T20:20:27Z The scherzo was at once buoyant and incisive. Music Review: James Levine Returns to the Podium at Carnegie Hall 2013-05-20T01:18:35Z This is the strangest thing the world ever yet saw, but I could not refuse, and I in some 347 degree enjoy the thoughts of being present, when Low Mass is read during the scherzo. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Individual as are the six Scherzos—two of them are in the Sonatas—they nevertheless stem from classic soil; the scherzo is not new with him, nor are its rhythms. Unicorns 2012-03-14T02:00:26.677Z It’s a scherzo, she says — a little joke. This Land: A Year Later in Tucson, ?The Event? Lingers 2012-01-07T22:53:19Z "Oh, all the scherzo pages have gone from my Delibes!" Rough-Hewn 2011-09-20T02:00:15.147Z The next, a scherzo, was full of tender suggestiveness—a dream told in music. Throckmorton 2011-07-25T02:00:15.900Z I can scarcely imagine anything more absurd than a priest at the altar and my scherzo going on. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z The opening is in the guise of a scherzo, very brilliant and difficult; then comes a long slow episode; then much development; and finally the entrance of the chorus. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z Liszt played three Chopin nocturnes and a scherzo of his own. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z The scherzo--formerly it was a masterpiece of grace and poetry. Boris Lensky 2011-03-07T03:00:10.233Z A string quartet, the first pianoforte sonata, the scherzo already mentioned, and the earliest group of songs, containing the dramatic “Liebestreu,” are the works which drew forth the warm commendations of Schumann. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 4 "Bradford, William" to "Brequigny, Louis" It appeared to make a great impression on the audience, and at the scherzo they were quite uproarious. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Once at a small theatre I did the whole of the Mendelssohn music to the Dream, excepting the scherzo, on a band of eighteen, and it didn't sound half bad. Shakespeare and Music 2011-04-01T02:00:29.867Z So, when he put the scherzo on the piano-desk, I trembled for the result. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z Grove catalogues among his works: “Cervantes,” an overture for orchestra; a scherzo, for ditto; overture to a comedy; a string quintet, and many other pieces in MS.; piano-forte quartet in B., op. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Thane's fingers moved with scherzo speed as he fed twelve adjustments to the fire control. Evil Out of Onzar I mean to make it the subject of a scherzo for a symphony. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z To prove his own understanding he has written one scherzo in technic that is a delightful example of bad rime, bad meter, and the other earmarks of the poor poet. A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories Raff thought, and so expressed himself, that certain parts of this scherzo suggested the Chopin "Scherzo in B Flat Minor," but it seemed to me that the likeness was too slight to deserve serious consideration. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z In the following year larger works came from his pen, among them his B minor symphony, overture, scherzo, and finale in E major, and the symphony in D minor. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers The third movement is a combination of a scherzo and a march—of a most unbridled fury. Music: An Art and a Language He write the scherzi, the ballades, the études?—you make me enraged. Melomaniacs Also Reznicek's adagio, scherzo and finale from "Symphonic Suite in E minor," given for the first time in America. Annals of Music in America A Chronological Record of Significant Musical Events LISZT's playing of the Brahms scherzo was a remarkable feat, but he was constantly doing almost incredible things in the way of reading at sight. Memories of a Musical Life 2011-03-10T03:00:45.530Z It is a scherzo intensely swift in its movement and almost ethereal in its dainty, graceful rhythm. The Standard Cantatas Their Stories, Their Music, and Their Composers Our story is like the scherzo in one respect: it has to be given in detached jerks—literary, not musical—and these jerks don't come at any stated intervals at all. Somehow Good It would be absurd to attempt to beat the three in a bar of one of Beethoven's scherzos. The Orchestral Conductor Theory of His Art It was in this pulsing, urging, joyful mood that Daniel worked at and completed the fifth movement of his symphony, a scherzo of grand proportions, beginning with a clarinet figure that symbolised laughing sans-souci. The Goose Man Then follows another scherzo, in D major, the subject being given out by the horns, accompanied by the 'cellos. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The ability to obtain this fine solemnity, and follow it with a scherzo of extraordinary gaiety, proves that a genius is at large among us. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions And then what does that irritating Lætitia Wilson do but say suddenly, "I'm quite ready for the scherzo, dear, if you are." Somehow Good Grove catalogues among his works: "Cervantes, an overture for orchestra;" a scherzo for ditto; overture to a comedy; a string quintet and many other pieces in MS.; pianoforte quartet in B, op. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The Virgin The adagio is love’s agony, but the scherzo is love triumphant. A Book of Burlesques After this is finished the scherzo is recapitulated. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations And yet almost none of the comparatively few scherzos that have been written here have had any sense of the hilarious jollity that makes Beethoven's wit side-shaking. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Besides, when it's a difficult scherzo and you take it quick, your appearance of having the concentration of Bonaparte and Julius Cæsar, and the alacrity of a wild cat, doesn't bring out your good points. Somehow Good In the following year larger works came from his pen, among them his B major symphony, overture, scherzo, and finale in E major, and the symphony in D minor. The Standard Oratorios Their Stories, Their Music, And Their Composers The Great Pianist This scherzo always fetches the women. A Book of Burlesques The fourth variation is a scherzo, bounding from one point of the keyboard to another, like a musical Ariel. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations An example of how thoroughly Loomis is invested with music—how he thinks in it—is his audacious scherzo, "The Town Crier," printed herewith. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions I must admit that if my aunt played the minuet rather quickly, she executed the andante in a very delicate style, and the scherzo and the finale were both dashed off in a spirited way. French and Oriental Love in a Harem Her andante for piano and orchestra and her orchestral scherzo are excellent226 works, which meet with frequent performance, while her suite is another example of striking beauty. Woman's Work in Music "Equestrian Scenes in the Circle," might now be added, as they've got a performing Palfrey who does a very pretty scherzo or skirt-show dance. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 104, January 28, 1893 Then, after the return of the scherzo, we have a delightful coda of twenty-three measures. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations This begins in A minor with a well woven and well derived set of themes, and ends in a scherzo in A major with spinning-song characteristics. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Sonatas, scherzos, symphonies and ballads followed fast, and in it all his gifted wife had gloried. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 14 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Musicians Among her other works, all for piano, are waltzes, fantasies, caprices, études, a ballade, a scherzo, a reverie and barcarolle, and a song without words. Woman's Work in Music These two styles of pianoforte writing—the fairy-like scherzo, and the "Song without Words," are Mendelssohn's specialties, in which no other writer can be compared with him. A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present This movement takes the place of a scherzo. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations "Just for This!" is a delightful vocal scherzo of complete originality and entire success. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Not to mention the polonaises, preludes, scherzos, and etudes. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques There are also sonatas for violin and for 'cello with piano, and a piano scherzo. Woman's Work in Music Listening to this mighty scherzo, we know the cynicism that corroded your spirit. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The two Romances represent the most serious side of his work, in addition to which I have put on that very popular little scherzo, "Spring Song," and a very pleasing parlor waltz. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The spirit is that of the scherzo, and the main theme is the catchiest imaginable, the rhythm curious and irresistible, and the entire mood saturnalian. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions A minuet or scherzo, often with a trio added, in which case the part preceding the trio is repeated after the trio is played. Music Notation and Terminology She prided herself on the brilliancy with which she played the piano—especially the scherzo passages. Happy Pollyooly The Rich Little Poor Girl Exclusive of the theme of the scherzo, which recalls a little overmuch the Teutonic banalities of Mahler's symphonies, the quality of the music is, on the whole, grave and poignant and uplifted. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The scherzo must not be played too rapidly; the finale is to go about as fast as possible, and with the greatest possible lightness and delicacy. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The scherzo evinces a taking jocosity with a serious interval. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions "The scherzo was played in very rapid tempo." Music Notation and Terminology Turn to the scherzo of any of his trios, quartets, sonatas or symphonies. Damn! A Book of Calumny The scherzo is the flickering of mad watery lights, a fantastic whipping dance, a sudden sinister conclusion. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers The third ballad is marked intermezzo, and has the character of a scherzo. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations To the meagre body of American scherzos, Bartlett's scherzo will be very welcome. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions These terms are derived from the word scherzo meaning a musical joke. Music Notation and Terminology The second part of the symphony is a scherzo which represents the child at play; there are terribly noisy games, games of Herculean gaiety, and you can hear the parents talking all over the house. Musicians of To-Day The trio of the scherzo is like a section of some Polynesian forest, with its tropic warmth, its monstrous growths, its swampy earth, its chattering monkeys and birds of paradise. Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers This piece, which has the speed and restless movement of a scherzo, has also the true Mendelssohnian flavor of sweet melancholy. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations For a second movement Raff has a wild "Walpurgis Night Revel," while Paine has a scherzo called "May Night Fantasy." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Sometimes the minuet and sarabande changed places, just as in modern times do the andante and scherzo. Critical and Historical Essays Lectures delivered at Columbia University Is it largo—then it is serious and soulful; is it scherzo—then it should be blithe and gay. Piano Mastery Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers "The linen, allegro, the cravat, adagio con amore, the suit—there's too much of the scherzo in the suit, my boy." Paradise Garden The Satirical Narrative of a Great Experiment The fugue, on the other hand, opens with a very sprightly idea, which is carried out delightfully, quite in the manner of a scherzo. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations It is a vocal scherzo for men's voices. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Beginning like an airy scherzo, presently a march rhythm is introduced, and before one has realised the state of affairs we are in the midst of a positive tornado of passion. Old Scores and New Readings Discussions on Music & Certain Musicians The present writer thinks that this scherzo may be omitted by a performer who satisfies himself that it is not an essential part of the Arthurian concept of the whole. Edward MacDowell The scherzo was suggested by a picture of Doré showing a knight in the woods surrounded by elves. Edward MacDowell It is a charming piece, producing the effect of a delightful scherzo. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Some of his scherzos reveal the same fantastic caprice which is found in the medieval gargoyles of Gothic architecture. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes The scherzo, with its trio, is not a form for minute painting of how the hero comes and saves; nor is this necessary; it has been sufficiently indicated in the first movement. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860 The fanciful and "elf-like" scherzo movement was suggested to the composer by Doré's picture of a knight in a wood, surrounded by mythological forest folk. Edward MacDowell The fact that no scherzos were included in the two sonatas that followed, strengthened my opinion in regard to this. Edward MacDowell Mendelssohn as pianoforte composer represents two very important and characteristic moods—the scherzo and the song without words. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The scherzo architecture of Villon's Paris, the gabled caprice of Shakespeare's London, the Rip Van Winkle jauntiness of a vanished New York, these are ghosts that wander among the skyscrapers and dynamo beltings of modernity. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago I wish I could take out Beethoven's scherzos! The Journal of Arthur Stirling : the Valley of the Shadow The most plaintive of Beethoven scherzos,—that in the Moonlight Sonata, —says as if it were spoken in words: "Once we were happy, now I am forlorn; Fortune has darkened, and happiness gone." Cambridge Sketches Most of the material which was to form the symphonic poem went ultimately to the making of the scherzo of the second piano concerto, composed during the following year. Edward MacDowell It goes like a scherzo, and when it in turn has been completed the main minuet returns with most agreeable effect. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations She could think of no tunes but dances—andantes turned scherzi, the Handelian largo became a Castilian tango. We Can't Have Everything The rhythm of the shells, the noise when they left the gun and when they burst, reminded him of the passage with cymbals in the divine scherzo of the Ninth Symphony. Clerambault The Story of an Independent Spirit During the War Well, let's dash through the scherzo before the infant comes back. Hilda Lessways MacDowell had intended to inscribe the scherzo: "After Doré"; but he finally thought better of this because, as he told Mr. N.J. Edward MacDowell The allegretto which follows is practically a sort of scherzo, in song-form with trio. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The orchestra was perfect, at its best I think in the "scherzos" which they took in beautiful style—so light and sure. My First Years as a Frenchwoman, 1876-1879 The resting-place and redeeming part of this scherzo is the sweetly- melodious second section, with its long, smooth, gently and beautifully-curved lines. Frederick Chopin, as a Man and Musician — Volume 2 The valses are the most objective of the Chopin works, and in few of them is there more than a hint of the sullen, Sargasson seas of the nocturnes and scherzi. Chopin : the Man and His Music These scherzi, however, brought him more note than profit, and soon afterwards he returned to Martinique. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 Still more humoristic is the scherzo from the Sonata in C, opus 2, No. 3. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations A nervous little staccato scherzo fell from his fingers, but it dropped almost at once into a quieter melody, and ended with something that sounded very much like the last strain of "Home, Sweet Home." Miss Billy To a very quick "scherzo" the performer now added the first notes of an "adagio." The Lesser Bourgeoisie The trio opens with fire, the scherzo is fanciful, and the adagio charming, while the finale is cheerful to loveliness. Chopin : the Man and His Music She opened the piano and sang, played charming nocturnes and scherzos with a grace and sentiment which displayed a perfect freedom of mind, thus triumphing over her father, whose darkling face showed no softening. Vendetta The second movement, scherzo, allegro non troppo, is in the key of D minor and in the style of a Beethoven scherzo, which, again, is a legitimate outgrowth of certain movements of Bach. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations The second movement is a very playful scherzo, which is designated as elf-like—as light and swift as possible. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Stormy chromatic double notes, chords of the sixth, rush on with incredible fury, and the scherzo ends on the very apex of passion. Chopin : the Man and His Music It has a clear ring of the scherzo and harks back to Weber in its impersonal, amiable hurry. Chopin : the Man and His Music I will admit that he walks stiffly, encased in his borrowed garb, but there is the andante, short as it is, an effective scherzo and a carefully made allegro and finale. Chopin : the Man and His Music The second movement, presto, is practically a scherzo with a strong flavor of fugue at the beginning. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Noble pages have been read, and the scherzo is approached with eagerness. Chopin : the Man and His Music The second part and the return to the scherzo are proofs of the composer's sense of balance and knowledge of the mysteries of anticipation. Chopin : the Man and His Music Our young Chopin does not move about as freely as Benjamin Godard in the scherzo of his violin and piano sonata in the same bizarre rhythm. Chopin : the Man and His Music The closest parallelisms are noticeable, the technique so admirable that the scherzo floats in mid-air—Flaubert's ideal of a miraculous style. Chopin : the Man and His Music The first movement is somewhat elaborately worked out, the second movement a slow one, the third in the manner of a scherzo, and the fourth a sort of grotesque finale. The Masters and their Music A series of illustrative programs with biographical, esthetical, and critical annotations Notwithstanding the grandeur and beauty of the grave, the power and passion of the scherzo, this Sonata in B flat minor is not more a sonata than it is a sequence of ballades and scherzi. Chopin : the Man and His Music |
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