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CHOPIN: THE NOCTURNES (RCA Victor; 2 LPs). German Poet Heinrich Heine once wrote about Chopin that his "fame is aristocratic, it is perfumed with the approval of good society, it is as distinguished as his person." The same might be said of Artur Rubinstein, Chopin's fellow Pole. Taking the long-lined melodies of the 19 night pieces, Rubinstein floats them on their shifting chromatic undercurrents in a most elegant and assured manner, never falling into sentimentality...
...week when most of the specials, for a change, deserved the title of special. CBS led the parade with S. Hurok Presents-Part II, and the indefatigable impresario produced a musical program of a quality that television has not achieved in years. Pianist Artur Rubinstein performed Beethoven's Concerto in G Major, Violinist David Oistrakh played Bach's Concerto in A Minor, and the Bolshoi Ballet danced a segment of Act II of Giselle. Throughout the 90-minute show, both music and ballet were presented on their own terms-without the usual TV camera tricks and, more important...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Pianist Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven, Violinist David Oistrakh performing Bach, and the Bolshoi Ballet in an excerpt from Giselle...
...only four U.S. cities, the album has now sold 15,000 copies. This week Mozart's "new" hit climbed to No. 21 on Billboard's chart of bestselling classical records. And the surge is spreading to other versions: RCA's five-year-old issue, played by Artur Rubinstein, is selling four times faster since Elvira arrived...
Zubin studied violin and piano, but played indifferently and never joined his school orchestra. By the age of eleven, he knew that he was more interested in becoming a conductor like his father, and like the great figures (Artur Rodzinski, Bruno Walter, Leopold Stokowski) that he saw in the 1947 film Carnegie Hall; a fanatic moviegoer to this day, he sat through it six times. His father, discouraged at the prospects for Western music in India, started him in pre-med courses. "Every time I sat down to cut up a dogfish," Zubin recalls, "there I was with a Brahms...