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Thus Robert Schumann in his 1831 review introduced the young Polish composer Frederic Chopin. Chopin was a romanticist who detested the very word; Bach and Mozart were his gods. Nonetheless, the romantic volcano that he triggered continues to erupt over a century after his death. To many concertgoers, a great pianist still means a great Chopin pianist, and if the recent spate of Chopin recordings is an indication, the artists agree. Some of the best...
...traditional. "To put it another way, there are no young girls around, so in order to remain modern somehow, we are putting our cultural grandmothers into hot pants. In music, for instance, Richard Wagner a few years ago had been almost written off as a Nazi and Chopin had been dismissed as a kind of 19th century pop composer. Now those two composers are intoxicating the same people who five years ago were smoking hashish...
...impeccable performances. But Bergman's characteristic flaws are present as well. Occasionally, a scene becomes annoyingly stylized: Karin looks at that piece of glass for what seems like a full five minutes, and the talk in which she and Maria finally commit themselves is smothered by caresses and Chopin. The dialogue is sometimes brittle and ridiculously abstracted (Karin talks of suicide at the slightest provocation--this might just be the English subtitles...
KIRKLAND HOUSE JCR. Robert Portney, violin; Arlene Portney, piano. Works by Scarlatti, Chopin, Liszt, Franck, Wieniawski, and Bartok...
...French Suite No. 6, Fantasia in C Minor (Pianist Alicia de Larrocha; London, $5.98). Once best known for her exquisite interpretations of fellow Spaniards like De Falla, Turina and Granados, De Larrocha has been cutting a new Continental image for herself in recent years. That includes some scintillating Chopin and Mozart, and now this disk, which is breathtaking in its dramatic separation of contrapuntal lines, ravishing ornamentations and sheer pianistic delight...