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SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (Philips) continues his masterful recording of Beethoven, this time with piano sonatas 11, 19 and 20. The full range of the composer's feelings is delineated in a firm, subtle style that lets no idiosyncrasy of the pianist cloud Beethoven's mood-which in these sonatas is light and easy, and even witty...
...concerts last week at the Edinburgh Festival, he played Sibelius' Concerto in D Minor, followed by Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D. In the Sibelius piece, even the longest and most difficult runs executed at the highest speed had the clarity and order of a complex molecular structure. And as always, he seemed to toss it all off as if it were the easiest thing in the world. There is also something refreshing about his obvious delight in playing. Not for him is the agonized look that seems to be the accepted expression for most great violinists; instead...
...sailor that doesn't sail-at least not much or far. Says Dave Parker, executive vice president of the Hatteras Yacht Co.: "People who buy these yachts aren't sailors-they're landlubbers. They like to get there fast and drink long." And to enjoy Beethoven in stereo and bourbon on the rocks, the owner of a modern yacht must hook up to a marina's power line (and he often wants a telephone line) almost as soon as he shuts off his engine; his appliances draw too much juice to allow for quiet nights lying...
...hoped for 20,000, maybe 30,000," beamed Moseley, "but this is fantastic!" The musicians, besieged by teen-agers for their autographs, gasped "Who me?" then gleefully scribbled "Ringo Starr." The program included the Act I Prelude to Wagner's Die Meistersinger, and was capped by Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, with the 150-voice Manhattan Chorus. Said Soprano Ella Lee, awed by the thunderous reception: "It's as if Beethoven wrote the Ninth Symphony just a few weeks ago." Funds for the concerts were contrib uted by the Philharmonic ($70,000) and the Jos. Schlitz Brewing...
...tire some young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish salesman (Germany's Heinz Ruehmann) who can believe no evil of a nation that produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach. Muses the worldly-wise ship's doctor (Germany's Oskar Werner) with deadly accuracy: "I've seen all these people before. They're on a ship, that...