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Good use of the new Boesendorfer piano this weekend. We have a chance to hear Hugh Wolff, pianist, composer, and new conductor of the Bach Society, play Schumann and Brahms on Saturday. The following evening, Lydia Artymiw will perform in an interesting program consiting of popular Romantic composers.
The 1974-75 music season isn't in full swing yet, but there should be at least one throughly enjoyable concert Friday evening, when Kirkland's brand new Boesendorfer piano can be heard in its solo recital debut. Seth Carlin will play program featuring Beethoven's oft-featured Waldstein sonata...
Like many composers, Brahms was in the habit of making transcriptions, mainly to double his royalties, although he often concealed his authorship in a pseudonym. This transcription is unsigned, but it carries the unmistakable stamp of the master. No one but Brahms would have dared change the key, Starker points...
Earlier in this century, composers rarely featured the cello, considering it a lowly second cousin to the violin. Artists like Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, Mstislav Rostropovich and Starker revealed the silken tonal beauty of the instrument. Still, the repertory remains narrow. Starker speculates that this Brahms sonata, written in the...
Called the "Ram Song" sonata be cause Brahms borrowed the melody of his Opus 59 Regenlied, the D major so nata emerged a varied, complex work with some diabolical technical demands. But Starker plays the cello as naturally as others speak. From a firm and steady bow a shimmering melodic...