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FRIDAY: 1973 Inaugural Concert. Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Van Cliburn, and the Robert Wagner Chorale perform Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Beethoven's Fifth symphony, Grieg's Concerto is A Minor, and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." A rare treat but don't watch unless Nixon signs the ceasefire agreement. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color. Live...
...silence of the audience," writes Rosen, "is not that of a public that listens but of one that watches-like the dead hush that accompanies the unsteady movement of a tightrope walker poised over his perilous space. At every performance of a Beethoven sonata, the audience is aware of a text behind the sound, a text which is approached, deformed, illuminated. The significance of the music as performed starts from this tension. The physical sign of this tension is stage fright." Like epilepsy, he says, "stage fright is a divine ailment, a sacred madness...
THURSDAY: International Performance. Pianists Claudio Arrau and Robert Casadesus and violinist Zino Fraocescatti perform two Beethoven sonatus from the early years of the composer's deafness. "Appassionata (No. 23 in F Minor)" and "Kreutzer." CH. 2.9 p.m. Color...
...Beethoven, The Five Cello and Piano Sonatas (Cellist Pierre Fournier, Pianist Artur Schnabel; Seraphim, 2 LPs, $5.96). Whether darkly probing his psyche or demonstrating sheer joy, Beethoven was a composer who believed that music should be dramatic and expressive. So, fortunately, do Fournier and Schnabel, in this historic collaboration dating from 1948, now issued in its entirety for the first time on an American LP. It is hereby recommended as an antidote for today's "cool" and bloodless school of Beethoven interpretation...
Wagner, Der Ring des Nibelungen (assorted soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the RAI-Radiotelevisione Italiana, Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting; Seraphim, 19 LPs, $53.98). With Beethoven and Brahms, Furtwängler could be infuriatingly eccentric. When he was conducting Wagner, though, his stately, expansive, analytic style produced performances that were ingeniously congruent with the composer's convoluted purpose. Drawn from a 1953 series of radio broadcasts from Rome in mono sound that ranges from only dim to adequate, this is a Ring that every Wagnerian will at least want to hear, and probably own as a low-priced...