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...after one of the most remarkable recitals in the long history of New York's Carnegie Hall. Ever so gingerly Pianist Artur Rubinstein-at 89, four years older than Carnegie-was blowing his own horn. The huge hands (he can span a twelfth, which is an octave plus four white notes) were spread imploringly on the table. The gray-blue eyes gazed boyishly across the hotel room where his wife of 43 years, Aniela, his Nela, was reading on the sofa. In the inquiring way that some husbands have with wives they depend on, he was at once asking...
...Artur: "I am saying that yesterday I play less wrong notes...
...Artur: ". . . fewer wrong notes without eyes than I used to play with my big, big eyes wide open...
...this, Artur roars with laughter...
SCHUBERT: TRIOS, OP. 99 AND 100 (RCA, 2 LPs). Violinist Henryk Szeryng, Cellist Pierre Fournier and Pianist Artur Rubinstein put away their virtuoso ways to collaborate touchingly on two chamber music gems...