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BARTOK: SONATA FOR TWO PIANOS AND PERCUSSION; BRAHMS: "HAYDN" VARIATIONS (CBS). Conductor Georg Solti hits the keyboard, joining Pianist Murray Perahia in a rousing pair of masterworks for two pianos.
The group is a formidable one, but right now it appears that Mutter and Mullova are in the ascendancy. Mutter's gifts include a consummate control of her instrument, gleaming intonation, ripe sound and an assured, nerveless stage demeanor. They seem to have come naturally. At age nine, Mutter coolly...
What to do? No one supposes that the millennium has arrived and that mainstream audiences will happily sit still for an evening of contemporary music. But new music is not the only road to innovative programming. There are scores of neglected works by masters great and small that deserve dusting...
Artists and administrators need the courage to chart a more rewarding course, but audiences do too. Those who hailed the deaf Beethoven at the Ninth Symphony's unveiling, who lined the streets of Milan for Verdi's funeral, who wept as the dying Brahms took a final public bow at...
All that said, one may well wonder at the wisdom of programming concerts as one might "program" a recording. Brahms's late music is beautiful and profound, but it is also, from an audience's standpoint, exhausting to listen to in long stretches.