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...onetime avant-garde pianist who has been performing for many years. Among other new works, I introduced Bartók's Second Piano Concerto in New York City as early as 1947.1 always felt I was one step ahead of my time. Yet, I was horrified to read your glowing account of Maestro Pierre Boulez's newest "creation" that was recently performed in France [Dec. 28]. Repons is certainly not the answer to this listener's prayer. Compositions made with the aid of a computer negate everything that music stands for. Andor Foldes Herrliberg, Switzerland
...Concerto for two Germanys...
...avant-garde in the mid-'50s and today sneers at the "utter boredom" of doctrinaire serialism. For all his radical leftist politics, Henze's own music is on the musical right. In a way, he is the Brahms of his day, writing in forms such as symphony, concerto and oratorio, preserving the traditional structures in the ace of the avant-gardist onslaught. Henze has mixed idioms freely throughout his career: harshly dissonant modernism, soaring lyricism and frankly tonal conservatism. But the glue that holds his work together is its humanism. Henze's music is meant...
...would have liked to hear Praeludium and Allegro (written in the style of Pugnani), Schon rosmarin or the cadenz to the Beethoven Concerto instead of the numerous Kreisler arrangements of other composers' works. The other pieces on the record are not worth the time or money. Any performance of Kreisler pieces (except Eugene Fodor on RCA Red Seal, 1977), will capture the flavor of this sentimentalist. Perlman plays a great Praeludium and Allegro...
CLASSICAL: Concerto Castello; music of Frescobaldi, Sweelinck, Bassano, Schmelzeer and Castello; Houghton Chapel; Friday...