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INTERNATIONAL PIANO FESTIVAL (Everest) provides an opportunity for piano lovers to hear and compare the styles of several virtuosos-Arrau, Backhaus, Brailowsky, Casadesus, Janis and Kempff-in a single benefit concert for the U.N. Commission for World Refugees. The program hitches together the warhorses of the piano repertory, but they are played with freshness and excitement. Standouts are Wilhelm Backhaus' definitive "Moonlight" Sonata, Byron Janis' unabashedly grand performance of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6, and Wilhelm Kempff's crystalline playing of Schubert's Impromptu in G Major...
Festival of the Performing Arts. Pianists Robert and Gaby Casadesus perform in the New York area on WNEW...
News of the recordings of other pianists--all recent and all recommended--must be telescoped into the following list: Van Cliburn, Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto--exciting only in the final moment (RCA Victor LM/LSC 2562); Robert Casadesus, Schumann's Papillons, Waldscenen and Symphonic Etudes--a delightful record (Columbia ML5642/MS6242); Mr. Casadesus and his wife Gaby, Mozart's Concerto for two Pianos, K. 365--an incomparable performance (Columbia ML 5674/MS 6274); and Alexander Brailowsky, Chopin's 14 Waltzes--a workmanlike but rather bored interpretation (Columbia ML 5628/MS...
...that was not set to take off across the land. They could be ticked off right down the alphabet from A to Z (with the exception of X, since Greek Pianist Anna Xydis is not touring the U.S. this season): Contralto Marian Anderson, the Budapest String Quartet, Pianist Robert Casadesus, Soprano Lisa Delia Casa, Violinist Mischa Elman, Violinist Zino Francescatti, Pianist Emil Gilels, Pianist Clara Haskil, Pianist Eugene Istomin, the Juilliard Quartet, Harpsichordist Ralph Kirkpatrick, Baritone George London, Violinist Nathan Milstein, Pianist Guiomar Novae's, the Obernkirchen Children's Choir, Cellist Gregor Piatigorsky, the Quartette di Roma, Pianist...
Philadelphia Orchestra (Sat. 9 9:05 p.m., CBS). Eugene Ormandy conducting. With Pianist Robert Casadesus...