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Another U.S. pianist who got his first big boost in Russia-a prizewinner at the 1958 competition won by Van Cliburn, followed by two generously acclaimed tours in 1959 and 1961. In his second album (recorded in Moscow), Los Angeles-born Pianist Pollack dips into Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, Chopin, shows a ringing tone, a fleet touch, and a natural temper for the romantics. At 27, one of the most gifted-and least appreciated-talents around...
Although Browning has yet to achieve the international reputation enjoyed by such contemporaries as Van Cliburn and Glenn Gould, he has had his share of triumphs: a winner of the coveted Leventritt Award in 1955, a gold-medal winner in 1956 at Brussels' Queen Elisabeth Concours (in which he finished second to Russia's Vladimir Ashkenazy). Unlike Cliburn, who is often identified with Tchaikovsky and other romantics, and Gould, who polished his reputation on Bach. Pianist Browning has not been linked with any school, but favors Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms, Schubert-German and Austrian composers that he feels...
...violinist father and a mother who was a professional accompanist, Browning followed in Cliburn's footsteps, studied with famed Teacher Rosina Lhevinne at Juilliard. He tours...
...thirteen years since the plastic LP era began, no classical record has exhibited the sales allure of such old champions as Enrico Caruso's 78-r.p.m. performance of Vesti la giubba from Pagliacci, which sold well over a million copies. But last week Pianist Van Cliburn joined Caruso and a handful of other 78-r.p.m. giants, became the first artist to sell 1,000,000 classical LPs. His recording: Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1, which captured first prize for him in the spring of 1958 in Moscow's International Tchaikovsky Competition and which he recorded...
Arturo Toscanini's LP recording of the Beethoven Ninth Symphony has sold 600,000, but the only real rivals to Cliburn-Tchaikovsky are preserved on old-fashioned shellac. Among the million-selling 78s: Jalousie, performed by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops Orchestra, Pianist Jose Iturbi in Chopin's Polonaise in A-flat and Debussy's Clair de Lune, Leopold Stokowski's recording of Tales from the Vienna Woods...