Word: claudio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Sheldon Lubow, a pupil of Claudio Arrau, and a winner of the Pierian Sodality Concerto Contest, was soloist in the next work, Liszt's Piano Concerto in E. With his big tone and sure technique, Lubow was in full control of the brilliant Liszt idiom. Fortissimo octaves boomed and cadenzas scintillated with the appropriate spice and dash. Lubow has one disturbing mannerism, however--he will linger on an appogiatura until the suspense becomes unbearable and the note of resolution is given up forever as lost. The orchestra, which seemed to revel in the bacchanalian decadance of the music, gave...
Lubow, a student of Claudio Arrau, won the Pierian Sodality Concerto contest this spring. At Town Hall he will perform works by Bach, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin and Prokofieff...
...piano reduction of Claudio spies Music for a Ballet, an orchestral score which won the 1956 Nadia Boulanger Prize, was performed by Ann Besser and Rzewski. The work is in four movements--Prelude, Vivace, Pantomine, and Pas d'action. It is impossible to judge a symphonic piece fairly after hearing it on the piano. The repeated-chord figurations which were so annoying would probably have been effective, had they been lightly chanted by a woodwind choir (or even played much more softly on the pianos). The melodies that could be heard above the accompanimental material were often charming and expressive...
...Claudio Spies '50 was represented by his Music for a Ballet. My only reservation is that there was not enough Spies in the piece: it was pure neo-Classical Stravinsky--clear, clean and often dry with its reliance on repeated staccato notes. It had the virtues of being stylistically consistent (albeit in another man's style) and eminently danceable. Spies wrote it for two pianos and now intends to orchestrate it. This can be a dangerous procedure; for orchestration ought to be part of the original conception, not something to be added last. As this work now stands...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). With Pianist Claudio Arrau...