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...Moscow psychiatrist leaned forward intently. "You will write your concerto," he intoned. "You will work with great facility ... The concerto will be of excellent quality." On the couch lay Sergei Rachmaninoff, 27, in a hypnotic trance. At the time (1900) Rachmaninoff was noted as a pianist and conductor. But as a composer he was notorious. His First Symphony had been premiered three years earlier to unanimous disapproval, so shattering his confidence that in the time since he had been unable to compose at all. Of his monumental block, Rachmaninoff recalled years later: "I felt like a man who had suffered...
...Prelude from Bach's Violin Partita in E and the Scherzo from Men delssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. There is the finest recording ever made of Schumann's Carnaval, astonishingly warm and realistic in sound quality despite its 1929 vintage. Rachmaninoff the conductor is also represented, leading the Philadelphia in effective readings of his soulful Third Symphony (1939) and brooding Isle of the Dead...
PUCCINI: LA BOHÉME (London, 2 LPs). Conductor Herbert von Karajan and friends make the bohemian life worth living-and listening to-all over again...
BARTOK: CONCERTO FOR ORCHESTRA (Columbia). Conductor Pierre Boulez finds heart as well as anxious nerve in a 20th century classic...
Married. Robert Shaw, 57, conductor of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and director of the Robert Shaw Chorale since 1948; and Caroline Saultz Hitz, 37, a member of the Atlanta Symphony board; both for the second time; in Atlanta...