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...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's still-new ideas...
TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR (Melodiya-Angel). An extraordinary father-son act: David Oistrakh, 58, conducts the Moscow Philharmonic, while his son Igor, 35, fiddles. David, long considered one of the world's great violinists, now proves himself, after only five years on the podium, a conductor of major talent, while young Igor shows every indication of keeping the Oistrakh name in the annals of superior violinists. Together, they exploit every nuance in Tchaikovsky's eternally popular concerto, an exercise in wild conversation between the persistent, articulate voice of the violin and the rumbling, colorful orchestra...
...professional life to classical music, and has emerged as a leading concert performer. He broadened the clarinet repertory by commissioning works from such composers as Bartok, Hindemith, Copland and Milhaud, and he has made his mark in the standard works through such recordings as Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A, which has sold 40,000 copies, an impressive total for a classical...
...week the Ballet Theater showed off Jerome Robbins' dazzling choreography for it in a vigorous, soulful ensemble tour de force. The Americans also drew 17 curtain calls when they unveiled Eliot Feld's Harbinger, a lively and neatly dovetailed abstraction set to Prokofiev's Fifth Piano Concerto. It was a week of delightful dilemmas for the audiences, but nobody had more fun with it than the dancers themselves...
...timbre to another. The 'cello engages in running dialogue with the various soloists, remaining on equal footing with the instruments that happen to be playing at any given moment. Except for the fact that the 'cello plays more often than any other instrument, the work is more a concerto for orchestra than a vehicle for the 'cello...