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Some numbers, to be sure, are traditional. Fadeev does two swooping solos to classical music in billowing black blouses, both with back flips and swanlike dying falls. Martini and Underhill electrify the audience with a smoldering duet to Unchained Melody by the Righteous Brothers. Even the conventional pieces are done...
SCHUMANN: CARNAVAL; PAPILLONS; TOCCATA (Sony Classical). Cecile Licad goes to the fair, tackling Schumann's greatest piano work, Carnaval, and finding goodies on almost every page. The Toccata also surges and sparkles. Only the tricky Papillons disappoints; she should float like a butterfly, but she stings like a bee.
For those who would like to explore more deeply the context for Gaia and the new environmentalism, Bantam Books will soon publish The Rebirth of Nature: The Greening of Science and God ($21.95) by Rupert Sheldrake. The British biochemist and philosopher delves into classical thought and the Reformation to describe...
The other photographic works were not as interesting as Butterick's. Richard Robbins' "Five Pieces from Paris Series 1990," for example, was dull and trite. All the images were slightly blurred, presumably to add a certain softness or ambiguity to the works. They did not. And the abrupt frames which...
THE ISAAC STERN COLLECTION, VOLS. 1 & 2 (Sony Classical). These boxed sets, spanning the years 1946 to 1958, can serve as the foundation for a violin concerto library or as a reminder that, though he has de-emphasized his playing to pursue benevolent causes, Stern is one of the truly...