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...first recording in three years, Horowitz selected works of composers with whom he has long been identified-Chopin's Sonata No. 2 in B-Flat Minor, Rachmaninoff's Etude-Tableau in C Major and Etude-Tableau in E-Flat Minor, Schumann's Arabesque, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. ig. In all of them Horowitz triumphantly demonstrates that whatever it is that keeps him from the concert stage, it is surely not failing artistic power. The glittering, steely technique is still there; Horowitz can play the piano with a strength and a seething air of controlled violence...
...first piano teacher into the act. Brought onstage by her son, Mrs. Rildia Bee Cliburn, 58, rippled off two warmly applauded pieces. The only clinker of the tour, in fact, was hit by Nikita Khrushchev. Ending a concert attended by the Soviet Premier, the Texas trebler dedicated Chopin's Fantasy in F Minor -'to Nikita Sergeevich." But Nikita, already hurrying backstage for a private dinner party with the toast of the town, was not in his box. Informed that Cliburn was still at the keyboard, he scrambled back to his place for the encores...
...finally withdrew backstage, Janis was congratulated by Prokofiev's widow. Said Tchaikovsky Prizewinner Vladimir Ashkenazy: "I have never heard Prokofiev played so brilliantly." As for the fans waiting for autographs at the stage door, they seemed to be struck by Janis' remarkable resemblance to the young Chopin, and by the fact, as one of them put it, that "one can tell by his face that he suffers while he plays...
Jenny Lind's friends included Berlioz, Meyerbeer, Schumann and Brahms. Her great friend Felix Mendelssohn loved to sit at his piano and explore her upper register. Frederic Chopin referred to her affectionately as "this Swede." She often rode along the trails of Wimbledon with the 78-year-old Duke of Wellington, who decorated his dotage with bright young ladies of the stage. The crowned potentates of the Continent competed for her friendship, from Prince Metternich of Austria to King Frederick William of Prussia. She was a close friend of England's Queen Victoria. Accordingly, when Jenny Lind died...
...music uncommonly well - as audiences in the U.S. and Europe have become increasingly aware. Other pianists of his age and training may be his match in technique, but few young pianists can muster the depths of thought and feeling that seem to come to him naturally. His reading of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 last week had an unusual breadth, a feeling of spaciousness, an easy-breathing pulse. It had its purely bravura moments - trip-hammer scales that Barenboim's small, elegant hands looked incapable of - but the overall effect was one of quietly exalted strength...