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...apparently, the Kremlin has permitted a trade of the tools. In the past few years an impressive group of young avant-garde composers have blossomed in the Soviet Union. Last week Composer Boris Tishchenko made his first trip outside Russia to hear the Western premiere of his atonal Concerto Grosso at the annual spring festival in Prague...
...Concerto Grosso, first prize winner in the Festival's international competition for new music, begins with a lengthy, cello solo, working complex variations of a four-note theme, builds to a climax with the drums thundering and a clarinet shrieking above a surging mass of sound. Tishchenko does not fall victim to the rhythmic fecklessness that plagues so many of the post-Webernists. Even his quiet passages have a discernible pulse, and the faster movements bristle with a tough rhythmic muscularity...
...slim, tense 24-year-old makes his American debut at Carnegie Hall with the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 in B Flat Minor. The conductor, Sir Thomas Beecham, takes the tempo slowly, deliberately. Horowitz's fingers are like coiled springs of Russian steel; they tear with trip-hammer speed and force across the keys, and in the last movement he arrives at the end four measures ahead of the orchestra. The audience roars its affection for the impatient pianist; it is the beginning of a lifelong affair. Even the crusty Beecham cracks a smile. Paderewski calls Horowitz the best...
...what people have heard about this 28-year-old bird boy, no first-time listener is ever fully prepared for the major poet who lives in a minor-sized body (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.). When he played Prokofiev's wildly percussive and majestically colorful Second Piano Concerto last week, even the critics were astounded to hear every note of the labyrinthine cadenza; most pianists usually cut it down to their size. After wading through the cadenza, it seemed hardly difficult at all for Ashkenazy to master the rest of the piece-lightening it with brilliant glissandos...
...DVORAK: CONCERTO FOR VIOLIN AND ORCHESTRA (Deutsche Grammophon). Filled with Slav melodies and sharp folk rhythms, Dvorak's only violin concerto is nevertheless grandly designed, and is given a spirited, full-bodied performance by Edith Peinemann, a 29-year-old German violinist with a singing tone and a dancing bow. With the Czech Philharmonic...