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...Romantic Generation (Harvard University Press; 723 pages; $39.95) is Rosen's demonstration of the value and pleasures of musicology. In the narrowest sense, the author explores a relatively brief period of music history--from the death of Beethoven (1827) to the death of Chopin (1849). Rosen applies not only his experience as an extraordinary pianist, but also his considerable grasp of such disciplines as art history, philosophy, literature and linguistics. The result is an elegant and altogether irresistible study that is destined to endure, along with an earlier, seminal work of Rosen's, The Classical Style: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven...
...ideas grow from his intimacy with the music. The book comes with a CD (a wonderful idea) on which Rosen plays 16 selections that he analyzes in the book. Rosen has concurrently released a separate recording, also called The Romantic Generation (Music Masters Classics), that contains six pieces--by Chopin, Schumann and Liszt--whose historical importance he discusses as well. One highlight is Rosen's commanding performance of Liszt's terrifyingly difficult tour de force of homage and imagination, Reminiscences de Don Juan, inspired by Mozart's Don Giovanni. In the text, he isolates from that piece a passage that...
...third track, "The Great Circle Route," featuring Hornsby on piano, is among the best on the album. The song begins with Hornsby passionately stamping out a piano riff reminiscent of a Chopin piano sonata, then smoothly incorporates a complex jazz rhythm, further layering melodic fiddle and dobro movements over Fleck's subtle banjo punctuations. The climax of the song occurs as Hornsby and Fleck swap licks and playfully try to out-do each other...
Currier House Music Society. Pianist Angela Au `97 performs a recital featuring works by Chopin, Ravel and Mozart. Senior Common Room, 6 p.m. Free...
Boston Conservatory. 8 The Fenway, Boston. 536-6430. Leonard Ciampa, pianist, will perform works by Chopin, Albeniz, Granados. Sun., March 12, 3 p.m. Free...