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Mere Gallantry. After intermission came a Chopin group: the Introduction and Rondo in E-Flat Major, two Mazurkas and the Ballade in G-Minor. Few pianists alive execute Chopin's notes with the grace, precision and bravura of Horowitz. It was astounding in the midst of one set of prodigious figurations after another to hear the melody seem to float up like mist from the keyboard. Horowitz does everything for Chopin except take him seriously as a dramatic innovator. The G-Minor Ballade, for example, is one of the composer's most original and powerful creations. Yet Horowitz...
...room, rented house that he named "Bleakmoore," evoking echoes of Emily Bronte. But he is by no means a recluse. At least once a month he invites four or five like-minded friends over for a "banquet" of turkey cooked on a 1915-vintage parlor stove, plays the piano (Chopin is his favorite composer) for them or else puts some of his 3,500 Golden Oldie records on the gramophone. A painstaking craftsman who charges up to $1,500 to recondition an old player piano and often works into the small hours on a job that excites his imagination...
...Adams House Music Society presents Pianist-Composer Robert B. Sirota playing Beethoven, Stravinsky, Chopin, and Sirota. Free. Monday...
Lydia Artymiw, piano, plays Beethoven Sonata, Op. 27 #1, Schumann Fantasiestucke, Schubert Sonata, Op. 42, Chopin. Free. Sunday...
...from the leading German romantics. There is a point in the first movement, for example, when the piano becomes a discreet accompanist (arpeggios mostly) and the clarinet takes a solo: pure Schumann. The piano's entry in the second movement has a stride and harmonic ingenuity prophetic of Chopin...