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...String Quartet No. 2, winner of the 1960 Pulitzer Prize, Carter stationed each musician in a different quarter of the stage. That arrangement produced a musical conversation almost Joycean in its plural textures. At one point in his 1970 Concerto for Orchestra, Carter wrote different music for each member of the cello section, causing even more cacophonous grumbling among the musicians than among their instruments...
FRIDAY: 1973 Inaugural Concert. Ormandy conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra, Van Cliburn, and the Robert Wagner Chorale perform Copland's "Fanfare for the Common Man," Beethoven's Fifth symphony, Grieg's Concerto is A Minor, and Tchaikovsky's "1812 Overture." A rare treat but don't watch unless Nixon signs the ceasefire agreement. CH. 2. 9 p.m. Color. Live...
...musicians' musician and a violinists' violinist. With Szigeti, the usual egoistic trappings of the virtuoso life took second place to a kind of earthy piety based on prodigious musical insight and a troth-like pledge between him and the composer. Here are some of his finest concerto recordings-notably the Brahms with Hamilton Harty (1928), the Beethoven with Bruno Walter (1932), the Prokofiev First, Mozart Fourth and the Mendelssohn with Sir Thomas Beecham (1933-35) and, at long last on LP, the Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonatas Nos. 5 and 10 with Artur Schnabel (1948). Though the sound...
Bach, Italian Concerto, English Suite No. 2, French Suite No. 6, Fantasia in C Minor (Pianist Alicia de Larrocha; London, $5.98). Once best known for her exquisite interpretations of fellow Spaniards like De Falla, Turina and Granados, De Larrocha has been cutting a new Continental image for herself in recent years. That includes some scintillating Chopin and Mozart, and now this disk, which is breathtaking in its dramatic separation of contrapuntal lines, ravishing ornamentations and sheer pianistic delight...
...evocative Iyric by Pran Landesman; the singer hawks his verses: "Dine on a poem. Take one on home," "King Lear's Blues" tells of a man so broken-hearted he believes he is Lear, suicidal and yet paradoxically end, to have suffered, "Big city Traffic Jam" is a miniature concerto for piano and street sounds. "Joy to the World" Wraps a story of Christmas loneliness around the theme of the original holiday carol; Simon sings of his missing lover: "Away in a manger in some hotel she lays her head. The carolers are gone...