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...specifically to Glennie's prodigious gifts. She opened with a piece by John Psathas called "Matre's Dance," featuring very loud, very impressive drumming, but to such an extent that the role of her accompanist, Philip Smith, was all but obviated. Glennie then played her own transcription of the Albeniz "Asturias," which did well in the transition from solo piano to solo marimba. The recitative quality of the right hand in the original blossomed in its new reverberating longevite. Glennie was especially sensitive in the subtler, quieter middle section, where she utilized different kinds of "rolls" to create beautiful textures...
Boston Conservatory. 8 The Fenway, Boston. 536-6430. Leonard Ciampa, pianist, will perform works by Chopin, Albeniz, Granados. Sun., March 12, 3 p.m. Free...
...Zigeuner-Capriccio (Gypsy caprice) sounds Bohemian, with good articulation and flashy slides. Mintz knows--or so it is said--what it is like to wake up and forget that he is not in his own bed. On the other hand, the recording of Kreisler's arrangement of the Albeniz Tango is no reason to get the butter. Mintz plays it as oversentimentally as the Glasunow...
...Albeniz: Iberia (complete); Navarra. (Michel Block pianist, Connoisseur Society; 2 LPs.) Enrique Fernandez Arbos' glittering orchestrations helped make El Puerto, Triana and the ten other pieces in Iberia popular throughout the world. But, as Alicia de Larrocha has proved over the years in three recordings of the suite, the piano originals are as atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that...
JOHN WILLIAMS (Columbia). "A prince of the guitar has arrived," announced Segovia of his 17-year-old Australian-born pupil in 1958. Williams is still playing royally-his own transcription of Bach's Fourth Lute Suite and some Spanish showpieces like Albeniz' Sevilla and Tarrega's Recuerdos de la Alhamhra...