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...BEETHOVEN: AN DIE FERNE GELIEBTE/BRAHMS: VIER ERNSTE GESAENGE (Deutsche Grammophon). Tenors, sopranos, basses, mezzos: eat your hearts out! The best classical singer since World War II is baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, who proves it on this dazzling lieder collection...
...pace quickens in the second act, which is saved by faster scenes and more entertaining song and dance. The White Knight (Tom Hale) does a rap to cheer Alice while the other actors dance. The final ensemble number, a "lobster dance" set to Beethoven, is funny and very original. The act drags only during a mainly unintelligible "Jabberwocky Battle," which leaves the audience guessing at its multi-lingual signifigance...
Vermont's Michael Arnowitt, on the other hand, is one man who has taken on the ambitious project of performing all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas...
What makes Arnowitt's undertaking so notable is that he is performing each of the sonatas to coincide chronologically with the age Beethoven was when he composed them. As the German composer wrote his last sonata when he was 52 years old, Arnowitt's project is truly a lifelong undertaking...
Arnowitt presented the first installment of the Beethoven cycle Wednesday night at the French Library in Boston, performing the first four sonatas...