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Bolling, a French-born composer, conductor, arranger, and pianist, wrote the suite especially for the world-renowned classical flautist Jean-Pierre Rampal. The two recorded the piece (with drums and bass) in 1975 on the Columbia label. The album has been a bestseller for three years...
...work was the romantic, bravura Piano Concerto No. 3 in D minor by Rachmaninoff, who had personally blessed Horowitz' interpretation with the words, "He swallowed it whole." Horowitz had insisted on the Philadelphia Orchestra's Eugene Ormandy as the conductor; Ormandy had accompanied Rachmaninoff himself in the concerto. Tickets were awesomely priced: $75 for the orchestra, $250 for the first-tier box seats. But just try to find one. And anyway the concert was a benefit and all $168,000 of the gross -Horowitz and Ormandy donated their services-would go into the orchestra's coffers...
...Soviet's penchant for bed-hopping deals a rude blow to the naive Emilia, who is further jolted when she learns of her mother's dabbling in adultery with Rosie (Anthony Zerbe), an old conductor-buddy who is currently between marriages. Emilia drowns her sorrows in a sleazy Manhattan bar one afternoon before a matinee, affecting a Russian accent while two good ol' boys from out of town try to pick her up. Her inebriation leads directly into an all-too-contrived comic device wherein Browne totters about the stage during the performance while mentor Bancroft winces in the wings...
...Tannhäuser that was spectacular to behold, breathtaking (with one major exception) to hear and immensely satisfying in the way it made dramatic sense of the churchiness that infuses the work. The performance also emphatically implied that Music Director James Levine, 34, is fast becoming a skilled Wagnerian conductor...
...produce the finest modern version of this noble epic. Beethoven: "Waldstein" Sonata; "Eroica" Variations (RCA). At 28, Emanuel Ax comes of age as a master of the classical style. Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Angel, 4 LPs). Mussorgsky's original version on records for the first time, lovingly interpreted by Conductor Jerzy Semkow...