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...Gilels, he had been a student of Heinrich Neuhaus' at the Moscow Conservatory, where he met Prokofiev and premiered the composer's Sixth, Seventh and Ninth piano sonatas. Unlike most of the fire- breathing Soviet wunderkinder, though, Richter came to the piano late, originally planning a career as a conductor; until he went to study with Neuhaus at age 21, he was largely self-taught...
There are always opportunities to rediscover the wonders of Beethoven and this recent album will move your soul, says TIME Music Critic Michael Walsh. Why? It's recorded on instruments used in Beethoven's era -- the 1820s -- under the direction of conductor John Eliot Gardiner who "whips up some excitement."Post your opinion on theArts & Culturebulletin board...
...Ring cycle all over the world. But Terfel has another quality: intelligence. He aims to conserve his voice for a long career, so for now it is Figaro and Leporello and a few comparably medium-weight roles. He also loves to sing lieder and other nonoperatic works. Conductor Claudio Abbado remembers the "beautiful vocal subtlety and understanding" that he brought to their recording of Schumann's difficult Faust...
Sony's Hollywood foray began, as so many sour business deals do, with bold rhetoric and grand strategies. Norio Ohga, the part-time symphony orchestra conductor who has been Sony's CEO since 1989, believed in a "synergy" between Sony's core business, producing "hardware" such as VCRS and camcorders, and Hollywood's "software" -- movies. Owning a studio, Sony thought, would help give the company the clout to set the industry standard for the next generation of digital video technology. In the early 1980s Sony's Betamax format of analog videotapes lost out to VHS, so Sony was determined...
...lithe and ripe, mezzo-soprano Maria Ewing was born to sing the title role, and she delivers a performance of untamed carnality. Slovak bass Sergei Koptchak is outstanding as her lecherous father-in-law, and Russian tenor Vladimir Galouzine is appropriately ardent as the lover. In the pit, conductor James Conlon and the Met orchestra rejoice in the score's raw power...