Word: chopin
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...score contains a pleasing, long-breathed, impressionistic melody, but Debussy has not treated it with great fertility of invention: his harmonic treatment is not so outstanding as might be expected. There is a second theme that contains a choralc-like melody that does not succeed in the way that Chopin's use of the device did in some of his Nocturnes, nor in the way that Debussy's own use of it did later in "Le Cathederale engloutie...
Just how a club-woman sounds was illustrated in a compelling soprano by another entertainer, while four pianists competed, two of them playing Chopin, another playing "Martha" in the "Tiger Hag" fashion, and another interpreting a piece which no one recognized...
...discs, preserved as permanently as sculpture. The best swing music is not written down; it is improvised. Before the phonographic era, improvisation was as impermanent as a cloud of smoke. Today the woodnotes wild of Benny Goodman's clarinet can be made as durable as a Chopin nocturne, and copies can be distributed by the thousands...
...CHOPIN: NOCTURNES (Arthur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor: 2 volumes, 22 sides). Though no towering musical architect, moody, consumptive 19th-Century Chopin still holds his place among the greatest of all lyric composers. Masterly playing by Pianist Rubinstein and excellent sound-reproduction make this first complete phonographic edition of the Nocturnes the month's most distinguished recording...
...world's greatest living pianist. At this it succeeds fairly well, though one would like to see more of Paderewski and less of the rest of the picture. Particularly interesting are close-ups of the pianist's hands, as he plays his Minuet in G, and selections from Lizst, Chopin, and Beethoven. The exquisite tone of Paderewski's music survives the sound-reproduction in only fair shape...