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...pleasure of Great Pianists is in the listening, however, not in the debate over inclusiveness. All the significant performances of the century are here: Artur Schnabel's Beethoven, Wilhelm Kempff's Schumann, Sviatoslav Richter's Prokofiev, Walter Gieseking's Debussy. But Deacon was too knowledgeable, and too wily, to select only the gems that every piano lover may already have. More than a quarter of the music in the collection was previously unavailable on CD, and some pieces, such as Clifford Curzon playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27, have never before been released commercially in any format. Deacon scoured...
...sharp contrast to Van Cliburn's rendition, recorded after his famed competition win in Moscow in 1958, which is tender, lyrical and full of the charm that captivated the Russians. Similarly, Great Pianists traces the varying interpretations of Chopin through the century--from Ignaz Friedman (tempestuous, uncontrolled) to Artur Rubinstein (cool, modern and free of excess) to Claudio Arrau (full, rich, warm). Given enough time, this collection proves, styles have a way of coming full circle...
...face of difficulty began to pile up, sometimes from surprising faces, sometimes from the old familiar ones we had almost forgotten amid talk of an Olympic youth movement. Often, in fact, looking up at the podium, one could imagine oneself in some Eastern version of Sleepy Hollow. There was Artur Dmitriev, lifting his new partner Oksana Kazakova to a gold, with a long program of soulful if hardly flawless majesty, and collecting the medal he had won six years before. There was Georg Hackl, the businesslike German soldier, shooting away with the gold in the men's luge...
...aggressive and unethical door-to-door solicitation by center teachers. In addition, some members report feeling squeezed for cash. "At the center, they say you can only make a difference when you give until it hurts," says the former devotee. Berg firmly denies any coercion at the center; cardiologist Artur Spokojny agrees, pointing out that he happily contributed $20,000 for a Torah scroll. "Giving is never something that I feel I have to do," he says. "If that were the case, I'd be outta there...
...youngsters are members of the St. James Armenian Church Junior Choir and Chorus, a group that began in late 1995 and has already received worldwide attention, according to Artur H. Veranian, the choir's maestro and the church's artistic director...