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...London disc also features a recording of Shostakovich's Piano Concerto No. 1, with Ronald Brautigam at the piano and Peter Masseurs supplying the trumpet solo work. The piece resembles Shostakovich's other concertos for violin and cello in that conventional devices of the Germanic school are used for delirious swells and placid falls, with the addition of unexpected minor chord modulations that open up new possibilities for the instrument. Those who see Shostakovich as a throwback to the Romantics should not underestimate the importance of his original variations on timetested themes...
Although Sony certainly has assembled a prestigious lineup sure to attract attention, the foursome cannot overcome their natural soloistic inclinations. To me, this comes across more as a quadruple concerto than as chamber music. They clearly try to make an effort at ensemble, but Stern refuses to bend his pitches down and to liven his dry tone, Ax hardly ever thinks of balance, Laredo gets lost in the acoustic din when not playing his solos, all while Yo-Yo Ma tries to play down the middle...
...Cliburn, the often reclusive but never disputed patriarch of American orchestral piano, swings into Massachusetts on Sunday on the last leg of a historic tour. The concert, at the Great Woods complex at 7:30 p.m., will feature Cliburn's signature piece, Tchaikovksy's Piano Concerto...
Cliburn has again joined forces with the Moscow Philharmonic, the orchestra that boosted his meteoric rise to stardom in the 1950s and 1960s. Cliburn's recording of Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 with the MPO has recently been released in the United States for the first time...
Cliburn may have lost a step or two in his more than half-a-century (he first played publicity at age 4) of concertizing. The removal of Rachmaninov's monumental Third Concerto from the planned program for Sunday night may have resulted from a memory loss in an earlier tour stop. However, similar doubts followed Cliburn's almost ten-year hiatus from public playing from 1978 until 1987; they were dispelled upon his return...