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DVOŘÁK: STRING QUARTET IN F MAJOR, OPUS 96 (London). Chamber music has a reputation for being cerebral, but Dvořák makes it heady. His "American" quartet, written in 1893 on a summer visit to Spillville, Iowa, is filled with song and catchy rhythm. The excellent...
They say that they have no regrets about deserting the classics. Still, when they are on the road, they like to get to the concert hall a little early. Then in an empty auditorium, Ferrante and Teicher play Bach and Brahms as if they were hungry again.
Piatigorsky notes that many a conductor who seems "desperately in love with music" was not notably enraptured by it when he was an obscure member of the orchestra. The maestro simply develops a keen sense of ownership: "Isn't my orchestra wonderful? Do you know my Ravel, my Tchaikovsky...
BRAHMS: FIRST PIANO CONCERTO (RCA Victor). Van Cliburn digs into the technically difficult passages and plays them eloquently, but when there is nothing to display but the music itself, he has much less to say. With Leinsdorf and the Boston Symphony.
BRAHMS: FANTASIES OPUS 116 (Deutsche Grammophon). What Van Cliburn lacks in the Brahms concerto, Pianist Wilhelm Kempff supplies here in full measure, condensing a whole spectrum of feelings into these seven melodic miniatures of Brahms's maturity.