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Consider the two pieces played by Michael Flaksman '66, principal cellist of the HRO. The Vivaldi Sonates en Concert in E minor for cello and orchestra were meant for cello and continuo. They sound soupy with a full orchestra. Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1 is more at home with a saxophone band than this Vivaldi is with such a lush orchestral arrangement...
...extremely predictable music hardly demands enough of the soloist for virtuoso display. Flaksman won the concerto auditions playing the Saint-Saens concerto, which is at least pretty, flashy, and, according to cellists, a good piece of cello writing. Why diddle around with warmed-over Vivaldi...
...PROKOFIEV: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3. (Kyril Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Philharmonic; Mercury). Byron Janis blasts off like a rocket with the orchestra ablaze behind him, and even when they get back to earth, they are still incandescent. The First Rachmaninoff Concerto on the other side is equally brilliant. A harmonious international collaboration, the record was made with U.S. equipment in Bolshoi Hall and won the French Oscar, a Grand Prix du Disque...
GLAZOUNOV: VIOLIN CONCERTO (Walter Hendl conducting; RCA Victor). Heifetz in a sparkling new performance of the 59-year-old work by the late cosmopolitan Russian, who studied with Rimsky-Korsakov but was more influenced by Brahms. Filled with musing melodies, effortless ornamental passages and infectious rhythms, the three movements are played in one romantic sweep...
...alone," he says. Parisians greeted New York dancing as "le style Frigidaire," but Balanchine's ballets are now being performed frequently by more than a dozen major companies. With 110 ballets to his credit since he left Russia-including such masterpieces as Serenade, Agon, Apollo, The Four Temperaments, Concerto Barocco and Symphony in C-he has no rival as a choreographer, but it is his special genius to convey his thoughts to his dancers. He is, they say, the world's greatest teacher...