Word: concer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PETER SERKIN: BARTOK: PIANO CONCER TOS NOS. 1 AND 3 (RCA Victor). It requires tremendous energy to beat out Bartok's spooky rhythms on a piano, and 19-year-old Peter Serkin spares not an ounce of vigorous intensity. But not all of the album's music is composed of harsh explosions of frenetic percussion; the "night music" in the Third Concerto was inspired by the bird and insect sounds of Asheville, N.C., where Bartok sketched out the music during a visit in 1944. Conductor Seiji Ozawa, 31, matches Serkin's youthful sympathy with Bartok...
...movement, a problem of drama as well as form. The last three movements, while structurally far less awesome, pose their own questions of spirit and emphasis. Moreover, Brahms was the first composer to have the orchestra borrow extensive material from the soloist, rather than vice versa. Hence in this concer-to the pianist bears responsibility for the initial shaping of many themes...