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...audiences in the U.S. and Europe have become increasingly aware. Other pianists of his age and training may be his match in technique, but few young pianists can muster the depths of thought and feeling that seem to come to him naturally. His reading of Chopin's Piano Concerto No. 1 last week had an unusual breadth, a feeling of spaciousness, an easy-breathing pulse. It had its purely bravura moments - trip-hammer scales that Barenboim's small, elegant hands looked incapable of - but the overall effect was one of quietly exalted strength...
...concert introduced two musicians to the Sanders Theatre public: Ursula Oppens '65, soloist with the orchestra in Beethoven's "Emperor" Concerto, and Robert Kogan '62, conductor of Beethoven's "Leonore" Overture...
Miss Oppens, winner of the 1962 concerto contest, played the title role in Beethoven's man-killing concerte: she was in kingly command of the piano, In addition to her ability to punch out octave scales, her technical stamina made it happily evident that she was no namby-pamby dilletance of the piano. Only a slight sloppiness at the end of the first movement and a bit too much pedal at times detracted from the virtuoso level of the performance. Miss Oppens, who performed this concerto also at the Aspen Music Festival, will be around for four years...
...Handel's 'Concerto Grosso in A Minor,' Op. 6, No. 4, Senturia extracted something rare in student orchestras: a solid string sound. Solos by Lawrence Franko, concertmaster, with the harpsichord, came out clean, vigorous, and straight-forward...
...inside." The Cleveland's program reflected the tastes of a musician who champions contemporary scores but is firmly schooled in "the great Viennese classics." Alongside Veteran Composer Howard Hanson's Bold Island Suite, Szell offered Haydn's Symphony No. Q2 ("Oxford"), Brahms's Violin Concerto in D (with Erica Morini as the excellent soloist), and Rossini's bubbly overture to La Gazza Ladra...