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Although Browning has yet to achieve the international reputation enjoyed by such contemporaries as Van Cliburn and Glenn Gould, he has had his share of triumphs: a winner of the coveted Leventritt Award in 1955, a gold-medal winner in 1956 at Brussels' Queen Elisabeth Concours (in which he...
From a man who saw Brahms plain and studied under César Franck came a dirge for modern music. Asked by a London newsman which 20th century composers seemed likely to stand the test of time. Paris-born Maestro Pierre Monteux, 86, flatly replied: ''I don'...
She demonstrated her technical ability, and some musicianship, however, in her solo, Brahms' "Variations on a Theme of Robert Schumann, Op. 9." She brought out the melody from a complex texture, occasionally blurring it with too much pedal.
The four men are as different in their relationship to the public as they are in their approach to the piano. While Rubinstein strides the stage with old-fashioned exuberance and verve, Serkin is more nearly the scholar, Horowitz the prophet, and Richter the mystic. At 16, Rubinstein's...
The radiant effect of Britten's composition was, however, rudely shattered by the last selection, Brahms' familiar Tragic Overture. I cannot understand why anyone would want to close a concert with this piece, and to do so after the Serenade was a programmatic catastrophe. The orchestra performed with commendable precision...