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There was another rarely performed double bill at Agassiz this Fall--the New England Chamber Opera's production of Busoni's Arlecchino and Gounod's Gift of the Gods. There were also two first performances this week. The New England Regional Opera (NERO) gave Carlisle Floyd's Of Mice and Men its East Coast professional premiere last weekend at the Loeb, and the Associate Artists' Opera Company gave Karl Heinrich Graun's Montezuma its American premiere last night in Boston...
AGASSIZ THEATER. New England Chamber Opera: Harlequin--Busoni and Philemon and Baucis--Gounod, Jan. 27, 8:30, $2 (students) $3 (general...
Brendel began playing at six, made his debut at 17. A year later he won Italy's Concorso Busoni, one of the most demanding piano competitions in Europe. By the time he was 30, his affinity for Beethoven's music had asserted itself, and Vox, a record company that appreciated both his brilliance and his beginner's price, hired him for a vast project: 36 long-playing sides of Beethoven's piano works. In a fit of fiction, the company added its own credits to Brendel's. He has been plagued by their inventiveness ever...
...after sharing first prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy in Moscow's 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, he became an evangelist for music that few other major pianists would touch. One of his best LP albums is devoted entirely to some of the piano music of Carl Nielsen (RCA), another to Ferruccio Busoni's hour-long piano concerto (Angel), a woolly and wonderful specimen of Germanic post-romanticism that includes a resounding men's chorus in the finale. Following this bent, Ogdon has become one of the exponents of the current romantic revival. That revival has helped bring forth a small...
...vanished company of virtuoso pianist-composers. At the close of the 19th and in the early 20th century, the musical type culminated in a series of men who combined powerful and poetic performing styles with highly idiosyncratic ways of writing for the piano-Rachmaninoff as well as Liszt, Busoni and Scriabin. Closer to the present time, the line seems to have ended with Prokofiev and Bartók. All of them, for better or worse, were musicians of originality and vision who made concertgoing fresh and exciting. Though Ogdon has still to make it as a composer, there...