Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...utmost efficiency consistent with impeccable elegance characterized the entire program--conducting, music, and performance. Mlle. Boulanger stood on her home ground: early and modern vocal and instrumental music. The selection of music avoided the Romantic period, and the blank from the death of Bach to the birth of Poulenc--1750 to 1899--accented the intellectualized, the carefully wrought, the finely spun. Inevitably, Mlle. Bouanger conceived and reaized the program in the image of her own precise character...
...years ago that Director Otto Karl Bach started his search for a painting that would fit in with his tiny cluster of top treasures, ranging from a Veronese and a Tintoretto to a Degas and a Renoir. He was not necessarily looking for a big name, but at the Wildenstein Gallery in Manhattan he happened to spot the Rembrandt in its marvelously fussy 17th century frame. The price for the painting was $95,000, but the gallery was willing to sell it on the installment plan. By last week the museum had collected from private gifts two-thirds...
Barenboim has honed his talents on a wide variety of masters: Bach, Mozart. Schubert. Brahms. Beethoven (by age 14, he knew all 32 of the Beethoven sonatas). He works at the piano only about two hours a day, because "you may lose freshness if you sit all day practicing." sometimes plays the violin to help him understand what the composer has written for the piano and feels that every musician should do some composing (as he does) to give his playing "a quality of understanding." Though he has made six recordings, he does not enjoy listening to them...
Victoria de los Angeles and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Duets (Gerald Moore, piano; Angel). A beautiful introduction to a part of the vocal repertory now only rarely heard in the concert hall. Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky are among the composers visited, and Soprano de los Angeles and Baritone Fischer-Dieskau do well by them. Pianist Moore is pictured on the album cover with his two singers, a recognition he deserves but one that he and his fellow accompanists rarely receive...
Another U.S. pianist who got his first big boost in Russia-a prizewinner at the 1958 competition won by Van Cliburn, followed by two generously acclaimed tours in 1959 and 1961. In his second album (recorded in Moscow), Los Angeles-born Pianist Pollack dips into Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, shows a ringing tone, a fleet touch, and a natural temper for the romantics. At 27, one of the most gifted-and least appreciated-talents around...