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Musically the most interesting was Horowitz's Chopin. By choosing the Nocturnes in E Minor and F Sharp Major and the Ballade in G Minor, he faced the ticklish problem of making three rather schmalzy examples of Chopin appear credible. And his success was immense. In the Nocturnes, especially, the gently charm with which he played was a welcome change both from the rather brittle tone he usually uses and from the gooey-tear-stained manner in which Chopin's Nocturnes are too often played...
...underplaying it, made it, perhaps, more acceptable to his audience, but thereby failed to get the idea across. Furthermore, his rubato was rather unorthodox and his left hand, at times, too prominent, thus creating the episodic effect of a Classical Rondo, rather than the flowing contimity so typical of Chopin...
...most U.S. bull-session polls, made the list with two piano sonatas, the Moonlight and Pathétique, neither of which rates tops with highbrow critics. Pianist José Iturbi led the single record best-sellers with Debussy's Clair de Lune and a firm version of Chopin's much-mutilated A-Flat Polonaise...
...accused was tall, bespectacled, 51-year-old Waclaw Lipinski. His life story contained other acts of courage. In 1939, when Warsaw was besieged by the Wehrmacht, Lipinski repaired the damaged Radio Warsaw, so that it could keep broadcasting hourly bulletins and Chopin's Polonaise Militaire until the end. He escaped into Hungary, returned to Poland's underground...
...even those who know enough French, to savor all these flavors. In order to insure wide U.S. distribution of the film, RKO has added to the soundtrack an English narration by Maurice Chevalier. This device, though useful, is about as welcome as having program notes read aloud during a Chopin nocturne...