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Murray Perahia's stock is rising. A Sony CD set commemorating 25 years of concertizing has sold especially well, and recent releases of Bach English Suites are also going fast. If he used to be on the short list of pianists, he is now on the short-short list. Last Wednesday the BankBoston Celebrity Series did well to host him at Symphony Hall where his foolproof program of old Austro-German masters brought the house down. Perahia opened with a lesser-known Bach English Suite, the fifth, in E minor, S. 810. The Prelude was full of crisp slides...
Schiff was the soloist for Beethoven's fourth Piano Concerto, Op. 58--technically the most challenging of five; and musically the most adventurous. Schiff is known for silky Schubert and playful Bach, and the Beethoven fit under his fingers less naturally. Although his prodigious gifts made for some hair-raising pianissimo, his playing lacked the requisite Schnabelian drive. He strove for a nearly pedal-free sound at times when more blurring would have been a relief, and he attached the first movement cadenza with all the grace of an angry farmer. The effect was wild, precipitous, unique...
...Schiff was the soloist for Beethoven's fourth Piano Concerto, Op. 58-technically the most challenging of five; and musically the most adventurous. Schiff is known for silky Schubert and playful Bach, and the Beethoven fit under his fingers less naturally. Although his prodigious gifts made for some hair-raising pianissimi, his playing lacked the requisite Schnabelian drive. He strove for a nearly pedal-free sound at times when more blurring would have been a relief, and he attacked the first movement cadenza with all the grace of an angry farmer. The effect was wild, precipitous, unique...
...background. When we were first-years, my entryway occasionally watched >=Jeopardy=Of the three aB s,=the one who left town when rejected as Philharmonic conductor of his native Hamburg.=Bach, Who is Bach?=Brahms, maybe.=Oh no, I m sorry, we were looking for Johannes Brahms on that one. Player 2 choose again.=Oh yeah, I knew that, because....=Celebrate the Charles River Festival=Jeopardy=Just tell everyone you missed it by one question,=Tough day?=They called me,=they=aJeopardy called me. They want me to fly out later this month, and I don t know...
Douglas Hofstadter is the Pulitzer prizewinning author of Godel, Escher, Bach...