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Music: Samuel Barber, Piano Concerto No.1...
...Poulenc: Concerto in D Minor (Angel) features the late Francis Poulenc and Jacques Fevrier as the two pianists in Poulenc's familiar and joyously baroque double concerto. Concert Champétre for Harpsichord and Orchestra, on the other side, is not vintage Poulenc, though played with mercurial zeal by Harpsichordist Aimée van de Wiele...
...Liszt: Concerto No. 1, Les Préludes (Andre Watts, pianist; the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia) confirms the astonishing first impression 16-year-old Pianist Watts made in his New York debut in January. A fluent and subtle performance...
Ellington's compositions for jazz band and orchestra usually stay within a concerto grosso form that lets the band handle the jazz, while the orchestra plays its own fiddle. After a recent Ellington concert with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jazz Critic Leonard Feather coolly dissected the Duke's Night Creatures concerto: "Ellington played jazz, and the orchestra played classical music. If you put rubies and diamonds on the same string, you don't have a necklace of novel stones-just diamonds and rubies...
Schippers enriched his private memorial by playing the Poulenc Concerto for Organ in G Minor just before the perform ance of the Sept Répons. Having transferred keyboard notes to the foot pedals, he freed an arm for conducting, and with only one slip (a missed orchestral entry), he played with brilliant drive. The massive, 5,000-pipe organ overwhelmed the string orchestra, but Schippers coaxed out of the instrument all the music's high glories...