Word: concerto
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...other hand, the concerto by Takemitsu, 54, is a delicate, elusive short piece in one movement that is more obviously Joycean in its free-flowing play of ideas. Hardly a bravura technical display, it is instead restrained; if Albert's River Liffey is sometimes a raging torrent, Takemitsu's is a gentle stream...
...sometimes wore fingerless gloves while he played, sang along with the music, and sat on a stool so low that he could touch the keyboard with his nose. Before a performance of the Brahms D minor piano concerto, Conductor Leonard Bernstein turned to the audience and made a short speech, dissociating himself from his soloist's unorthodox view of the piece. At his Cleveland Orchestra debut in 1957, he tangled with the irascible maestro George Szell over his use of the soft pedal in a Beethoven concerto; Szell never performed with him after that, but saluted: "That...
BRAHMS: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 (Deutsche Grammophon). Krystian Zimerman and Leonard Bernstein give the ferocious concerto a lofty performance...
...teenager, Weakland was torn between two vocations. After making a creditable soloist's debut, performing Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2 with a local orchestra, he considered a musical career. Instead, he became a Benedictine monk at St. Vincent's Archabbey in Latrobe, Pa., in 1945. Nonetheless, he kept up his music, earning a master's degree in piano at New York City's Juilliard School and doing doctoral-level work in musicology at Columbia University. He also transcribed medieval works into modern notation for the Play of Daniel, a heralded music-drama introduced...
...love of contemporary music is already clear in his Cleveland programming: on a U.S. tour last month, he offered a ravishing performance of Arnold Schoenberg's unfinished atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong in more traditional fare, which he leads with crisp economic gestures. A propulsive but disciplined reading of Schumann...