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...BACH: CONCERTO IN D MINOR; CHOPIN: CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MINOR (London). Vladimir Ashkenazy's technical brilliance is enough by itself to rivet the listener's attention, but it is only one factor in a superb performance. He moves across the glittering surface of the Chopin like moonlight on a windswept lake, and gives the popular Bach concerto an almost hearty treatment that displays to perfection the gaiety in its baroque adornments...
...MOZART: CONCERTOS 14, IN E FLAT MAJOR, AND 17, IN G MAJOR (Columbia). The elegant flowers of Mozart's genius are tended with loving care by Rudolf Serkin. He does particularly well at portraying the shifting moods of the G Major Concerto, which begins like one of the composer's opera overtures with a triumphant flood of sound, then grows increasingly introspective. Serkin's careful hands hold the balance, and the listener hears one of Mozart's most poignant statements...
...days, shuttling between Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem like a rush-hour commuter. Under Mehta's spirited attack, the orchestra's strings have bloomed into full brilliancy. Though staunchly rooted in the classics, the Israeli audiences received his reading of Bartok's First Piano Concerto, with Israeli Pianist Daniel Barenboim, as enthusiastically as they do their Brahms. Mehta was equally successful with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé Suites, a piece that, until a few years ago, the orchestra could barely manage, owing to a marked deficiency in the brass and woodwinds sections. The short-windedness...
Judges in the HRO Concerto Contest are unable to find a soloist good enough to play with the HRO. Radcliffe raises its room fee and requires girls living off-campus to pay the full amount for board. A WHRB disc jockey predicts the result of the Playboy Jazz Poll so accurately ("I had to prostitute my own taste") that he wins a weekend with a Playmate...
Levin won the concerto contest here last year. He is active as a pianist, harpsichordist, a conductor and composer. He is chief producer at WHRB and has two weekly programs...