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Complete Piano Music of Ravel (Robert Casadesus; Columbia, 6 sides LP). A major undertaking by an artist who is at his best in French music. Casadesus delights in the pastel shadings of Le Tombeau de Couperin, ripples almost too effortlessly through the intricacies of Gaspard de la Nuit. For the four-hand Mother Goose suite and Habanera, he is assisted by his wife Gaby. Recording: good...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Conductor: Dimitri Mitropoulos; soloist: Pianist Robert Casadesus...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Pianist Robert Casadesus...
Last week a distinguished musical family made Bach's D Minor Concerto a family affair. Famed French Pianist Robert Casadesus (rhymes with has a canoe) first broached the idea of playing the concerto with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony to Conductor Dimitri Mitropoulos last spring. Mitropoulos was "enthused." He knew that Robert's wife Gaby, a first-rate pianist in her own right who often performs two-piano works with her husband, would play one of the pianos. The third pianist, Casadesus announced with pride, would be his son Jean, of course...
...Thanksgiving Day, a Carnegie Hall audience heard the result of all the planning and practice. Conductor Mitropoulos took the podium, in front of the Philharmonic's strings. The Casadesus family sat down to their closely banked pianos, Robert on one side, facing Gaby and Jean. Then, radiating their pleasure, they played Bach's concerto with all of the vigor, grace, delicacy and perfect teamwork it deserves. Carnegie Hall gave them a Thanksgiving hand in return...