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...Princeton, N.J., Jean Casadesus, 21-year-old son (and pupil) of Pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus, rehearsed one of his father's favorite pieces-Ravel's Piano Concerto-for his concert debut this spring with the Philadelphia Orchestra...
During the two weeks at Lucerne the parade of participating talent was like an all-star game: Menuhin, Casadesus, Sargent, Francescatti, Ansermet, and Kletski. But above all these towered the stumpy, leonine figure of Edwin Fischer. Known to Americans mainly for his recordings of Bach, the sixty-year-old master branched out into other types of music. One evening, he played trios of Beethoven, Brahms, and Tehaikovsky. On two other occasions he played the last sonatas of Beethoven as they have seldom been played before. The greatest of all, however, was his performance of the Emperor Concerto a performance which...
Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No. 4 in C Minor (Robert Casadesus and the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). French music brilliantly played by the French pianist, but not by the American orchestra. Recording: good...
Although critics loftily wrote that a pianist could not really be gauged by Mozart, audiences liked the big, genial pianist who looked more like a Minnesota farmer than a Paris esthete. The critics eventually capitulated to Casadesus' expert left-handed soloing of Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand Alone...
...Casadesus made an annual U.S. tour, and in 1940 brought Gaby and their two sons for a holiday. When the Nazis invaded France, the family decided to stay, and subleased* the oldest (preRevolutionary) stone house in Princeton, N.J., complete with Hessian ghost...