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...From Beethoven to Stravinsky, the best...
...Beethoven: Violin Concerto (Violinist Gidon Kremer, Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner, conductor; Philips). Chopin: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Pianist Ivo Pogorelich, Chicago Symphony, Claudio Abbado, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon). These concertos, featuring two electrifying performers, are of unusual interest. Pogorelich has technique and temperament in equal measure; right from the piano's cascading entry, this is hot-blooded, Russian-style Chopin, more than a continent removed from the genteel salons of 19th century Paris. The Kremer-Marriner partnership in the Beethoven results in an elegant performance deliberately at odds with the customarily virtuosic way of viewing...
When he is not arranging billion-dollar loans-or dueling with his critics-De Larosiere enjoys listening to Bach and Beethoven and entertaining in his Washington, D.C., house. When he can, he takes his wife France to the movies or the theater. He enjoys fly-fishing and reading history. His current bedside book is one of Jean Favier's about the Middle Ages in France. It is a great way to escape the problems of contemporary world finance...
...writing has dealt primarily with choral music and with Beethoven, both music and biography. He has also been general editor of the Harvard Radcliffe Choral Music Theatre...
...said that Music 2 will be taken over by Peter Lieberson next year, a new assistant professor and composer. The department hired Lewis Luckwood, a Beethoven scholar, a few years ago partly in anticipation of Forbes's retirement, Wolff said...