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...would be fitting to say that Van Cliburn's talent was discovered in June 1952, when, at the age of 17, he received the Chopin Scholarship of $1,000 from the Kosciuszko Foundation. This will surely gladden the hearts of the captive people of Poland and of all U.S. citizens of Polish descent...
...leaves off. His expressiveness ranges from ghostly sonorities and harplike trills to ringing double octaves that cleave the orchestra like a sword. He can shape passages with tension and excitement, turn the weariest warhorse into a spirited charger. He is not above rewriting, as in the chorale section of Chopin's C Sharp Minor Scherzo, where he fills out the harmonies with extra notes ("I think Chopin would forgive...
...solemn face frozen in bewilderment, the zany Dane had a fine time telling about his 2½ brothers (three half brothers, one regular brother) and bumbling through a Chopin waltz that was later rippled off by a stagehand wearing gloves...
...Chopin Fantaisie was conceived in fine rhapsodic style and its tragic message deeply felt and admirably projected. Occasionally a melody could have been done in a more cantabile way instead of in the mezza voce style chosen by the artist, but generally the dynamic framework was carefully chosen to set off the piece's structure...
...first of Chopin's waltzes, performed in the most exemplary fashion with the cleanest possible finger work, was the pianist's one encore...