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...high point of the recital, though, was Chang's stunning rendition of Chopin's Nocturne in C-sharp minor. Chopin never wrote violin music; the Nocturne that Chang performed Friday night is a transcription of the original piano part. The Nocturne is unfalteringly sublime--in this adaptation, the violin part is elegant and the accompaniment somber and unintrusive. For this piece, Chang abandoned her usual fiery bravado for heartbreaking tenderness. Individual notes melted and the music rang with the unearthly sonority of a human voice. Its only fault was that it was tragically short, leaving one wishing that Chang...
...interpretations of the great Russian and German concerti--Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms--Cliburn has always had a special affinity for solo piano works. His recording of Chopin have matched those of the late Artur Rubinstein and Claudio Arrau in popularity. Sunday's concert will feature Chopin's C-Sharp Minor Scherzo as well as pieces by Debussy and Szymanowski...
...sheepishly informing the audience of 14,000 that he felt unable to play the Rachmaninoff concerto, and so substituted a series of solo encores, including a Szymanowski etude, Liszt's arrangement of Schumann's song Widmung, Debussy's La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune and the Chopin C-sharp minor Scherzo. And then he was gone...
...Mutt-and-Jeff tandem of Tommy Tune and Drew Barrymore finding new steps for some unforgettable old melodies. Nor would anyone think of shooting the piano players. Michael Tilson Thomas opened with Rhapsody in Blue. Later Leonard Bernstein brought a furious solemnity to Gershwin's Prelude in C-sharp Minor. And at the climax Movie Maestro Johnny Green unearthed half-century-old arrangements of Gershwin songs and made them swing like...
...missed. On Wednesday, May 10, faculty member Veronica Jochum performs in the final faculty concert of a series of recitals by the NEC piano faculty. She plays Mozart's Sonata in F Major K. 533, Bach's Sixth English Suite in d minor, Beethoven's Sonata in c-sharp minor op. 27, no. 2 ("Moonlight"), and Scriabin's Preludes and Poeme Sanatique op. 361: a superb program beginning at 8 pm in Jordan Hall, 290 Huntington Ave., Boston. Admission is free...