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...imperialists. Promptly at 9:30 a.m. on the first and third Friday of each month, he would switch on his radio and slip open his code book. All he really had to know was a little classical music. If the mes sage was preceded by excerpts from Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, it was genuine; if it began with parts of Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, Georgiev knew the message was a ruse designed to foil would-be counterspies. For a while, Georgiev played Name That Tune like an expert. Then, in September, he was somehow nabbed by Bulgarian...
Often chided for a lack of innovation in his music, Britten has wisely scorned the sterile world of experimentation for its own sake. With the maturation of his talents has come a taste for "the slender sound of, say, Mozart or Verdi or Mahler." An early enthusiasm for Beethoven is gone: "It's really quite sloppy, you know." Brahms he cannot abide. "I play through all his music every so often to see if I am right," Britten worried recently. "I usually find that I underestimated last time...
Among the surfeit of phonograph records that were put on the market last year, a few merit special attention. An even smaller number seem especially appropriate as Christmas gifts of music. A selective list of the year's best: Beethoven...
...Complete Piano Sonatas (Angel). Artur Schnabel's death in 1951 did not slow the growth of his reputation as a pianist. In his time, he was considered the world's only true interpreter of Beethoven, and a matchless player of Mozart, Schubert and Brahms as well. But in the age of pianistic wizardry that has followed him, he seems even more-a musician among pianists, an artist among musicians. Of his many great recordings, the chef-d'oeuvre is his collection of all 32 Beethoven sonatas, here handsomely presented in a handsomely annotated edition...
During his nine years as leader of the Buffalo Philharmonic, Krips won a wide reputation as an espe cially authoritative spokesman for Beethoven, Mozart and Brahms, but he is more concerned with his approach to the whole repertoire than with mastering any special part of it. "We must apply the technique of the singer to the instruments," he says. "A musi cian has to feel that he is sing ing, supporting the music by the breath. The breath is your soul. The breath is your life-the only divine part...