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...Columbia, their sound is often dry and devoid of the luster for which the orchestra is famous. Charles Ives' Third Symphony and an LP of Grieg and Liszt concertos with Pianist Van Cliburn as soloist are the best of the lot. But the Chopin F-minor Concerto with Artur Rubinstein is heavy and graceless, and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony lacks the bite and immediacy of a nine-year-old version that Columbia re-engineered and rereleased last year. Bruckner's Seventh Symphony has a glossiness that does not suit the music at all. Mozart's Jupiter...
...post of music director for the Chicago Symphony is sometimes known as a conductor's Waterloo. No wonder. Artur Rodzinski lasted exactly one year before the dissatisfied trustees ousted him. Rafael Kubelik was hounded out of the job by Claudia Cassidy, the relentlessly hostile-toward Kubelik, at any rate- but now retired critic of the Chicago Tribune. Jean Martinon quit last year after a series of disputes that culminated in a clash with his musicians over discipline. The only recent conductor to succeed in the job was the late Fritz Reiner, a Hungarian with Germanic musical tastes, who brilliantly...
...their relatively brief collaboration, the quartet displays a seasoned, settled style-almost as if it had been playing together for a decade. Its tone is unfailingly rich and clear; its mastery of the ensemble form is so complete that even when performing with as experienced a musician as Pianist Artur Rubinstein its relative youth as a quartet is not all apparent...
Will Steven Armstrong has designed the settings so that simple maneuvering can quickly shift the locations from jungle to crossroads, from the exterior of the Coliseum to the amphi-theatre inside. And Arthur (not Artur) Rubinstein has provided clever incidental music that makes periodic and parodic references to jazz, Ravel, and Respighi...
LUCERNE INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL (Aug. 14-Sept. 8) is long on notable artists (Artur Rubinstein, Herbert von Karajan, William Steinberg, Isaac Stern) and short on program ideas. Still, the air is crisp and the execution usually exemplary at the picturesque lakeside resort...