Word: beethoven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CHUCK BERRY'S GOLDEN HITS (Mercury) is a cram course in the origins of today's pop music, going back to Maybellene and on to Roll Over Beethoven. All were recorded for this album with new arrangements, plenty of old boogie-woogie and the tang of fresh country and western airs. Berry, who virtually invented it, still produces rock 'n' roll that really rocks and rolls...
...Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 4. Unfortunately, Orin Grossman's performance, light and brilliant though it was, lacked the warmth the work must have to be effective. The first movement suffered most: the opening solo was not instantly captivating; the orchestra plodded along sounding labored, even leaden. The second movement contained some beautiful moments. In the finale the orchestra caught fire, and Grossman's brilliance served him well. The movement was marred only by the orchestra's repeated failure to play the main theme truly pianissimo...
...BEETHOVEN: EMPEROR CONCERTO (Odyssey). Walter Gieseking made the recording in London shortly before his death in 1956, and it is a fitting final statement by a major interpreter of Beethoven. Herbert von Karajan conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a fiery, romantic interpretation of the masterpiece...
...program was ambitious, a no-compromise mixture of the new, the old and the damnably difficult. In Schoenberg's slow, brooding Five Piano Pieces, he stretched and examined each phrase with all the intense care and concentration of a surgeon. In Beethoven's Diabelli Variations, an awesome challenge to pianists twice his age, he impetuously jiggered tempos and juggled rhythms without catching the full depth and breadth of the music. In Mozart's Sonata in F Major, he was all lucidity and logic, rippling through the trickiest passages with an almost playful ease. His interpretations were introspective...
...story, so Stephen and Maria, "two very unordinary students," share a special relationship which features endless avowals of their love (the word is used a record thrity-three times) and a never-to-be-equalled scene in which they sit, naked, in Stephen's living room, listening to Beethoven. Not surprisingly, they retire to his bedroom as "Beethoven erupted in his finale." It is said that the story is a parody, but the author's intention is nowhere revealed. If it is meant to be a parody, it fails because of its length; at best, it's a five-line...