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...orchestra is not yet burnished to the glow it had under Mengelberg, and in some of the repertory he has not yet overcome a faint tendency toward coolness and restraint. But when he conducts the full, darkly romantic music that seems to echo the Dutch temperament-Mahler or Bruckner, for example-he is superb...
Solid Payment. Last week, on its fourth U.S. visit, the Concertgebouw left New York on its way to the Midwest, playing college concerts at Yale, Rochester and Oberlin. The highlight at every stop was a broad, impeccably phrased performance of Bruckner's Symphony No. 7. Haitink's carefully reasoned, deeply felt interpretation brought out each secondary melody and delicately balanced the softest shimmer of strings with the noblest blast of brass. Yet, as he built from climax to climax, he never lost sight of the unifying line in the hour-long score. It was not only magnificent music...
...concert pianist, an intimate friend of Chopin and Liszt, and one of the finest post-Beethoven composers for piano. He was known as the Berlioz of the piano. His music reflected none of the warm rhapsodical reveries of Chopin and Liszt but, rather, foreshadowed Mahler and Bruckner. A moody, eccentric loner, Alkan retired from public life at 42 to study the Talmud, teach, and compose. One of the pieces he composed, curiously enough, was a funeral march for a parakeet...
...BRUCKNER: FOURTH SYMPHONY (Angel). Otto Klemperer's approach to Bruckner's "Romantic" symphony is majestic but brisk, brassy and free of the tedious, otherworldly vapors that sometimes surround the innocent mystic's lengthy work. This is one of six recordings with London's Philharmonia Orchestra (including symphonies by Stravinsky, Dvorak and Mozart) that celebrate Klemperer's 80th birthday...
...Ninth, Bruckner's Eighth lasts nearly 80 minutes; but it is a ripe and rather naive product of the 19th century, whereas the Mahler is an intense breakout into the 20th. The Berlin Philharmonic, its brasses shining, is led by Eugen Jochum, a Bruckner devotee who conducts with warm involvement...