Word: diabelli
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Katchen is convincing European audiences that he is not merely one of the best of young American pianists but, more simply, that he is one of the best of all pianists living today. Last month, after listening to him in a program of Beethoven, including the difficult 55-minute "Diabelli" Variations, the London Times granted him the full range of pianistic talents: "Demoniac violence . . . ethereal cantabile . . . the phenomenal technique of a virtuoso and the vision of a seer." Amsterdam's Het Parool called his playing "sublime ... an overwhelming experience...
This winter, in programming Beethoven's "Diabelli" Variations and last sona tas, the pianist from Long Branch dug into some of the deepest works in the repertory. But U.S. audiences may have to wait until next season to hear him in anything except records (London). Meanwhile, he is considering tours of Australia, Egypt and Turkey...
Tomorrow night's program--the last--will include six Bagatelles, op. 126, and the Diabelli Variations...