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Great Pianists of the Century Play Chopin (Cortot, Rubinstein, Gieseking, Arrau, Horowitz, Cherkassky, Malcuzynski, Lipatti, Anda, Seraphim; $2.98). Nine artists are represented in this Chopin collection assembled from monophonic recordings made between 1933 and 1959. The sound is not equal to contemporary standards, but it in no way obscures the distinctive style of each artist. Collectors will want this one. 25th Anniversary Season: Graffman Plays...
Paris with Nadia Boulanger and Alfred Cortot. A year later he went to New York for piano studies with Edith Oppens, later won first prize for a solo organ piece in the Nice International Composition Competition, an M.A. in composition from Harvard and a doctorate from Boston University. Still, it was his gifts as a performer that earned him a Columbia Records contract in 1967 and dazzled the New York critics at a recital in 1971 (wrote the Times: "A keyboard technician of staggering facility, on the scale of Horowitz...
Together with the Juilliard String Quartet (TIME, Aug. 23), the new trio gives the U.S. unsurpassed mastery of chamber music. Critics struggling to define its excellence find no one around to compare it with. They hark back instead to the years before World War I when French Pianist Alfred Cortot, French Violinist Jacques Thibaud and Pablo Casals were the presiding maestri. Even the great trio of the '40s-Heifetz, Feuermann and Rubinstein-is not in the running, for Stern, Rose and Istomin make up a trio unique in attitude as much as accomplishment. They play as if for themselves...
...year-old 20 precious minutes. Amazed, he listened to her for two hours, then got her a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute of Music, offering to teach her himself. Later she was sent abroad to study and took lessons (all free) from Egon Petri, Artur Schnabel, Alfred Cortot, Wilhelm Backhaus. Said Sergei Rachmaninoff: "In one year you will be magnificent. In two years you will be unbelievable . . . Would you like some cookies...
...Schumann situation is even worse. Kilenyi and Cortot slaughter the etudes symphoniques and Myra Hess distorts the Carnaval, while the toccata, Kreisleriana, and sonatas exist only in ancient and unavailable Victor sets. The other piano works are mostly unrecorded. Liszi and Franck are brutally manhandled by everyone but Petri and Horowitz. Here Louis Kentner typifies the wasted talent: known in America for a few excellent Mozart recordings, Kentner himself considers Liszi his piece do resistance...