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BUSONI: PIANO CONCERTO (Telarc). A bit grandiose but truly grand, with Christoph von Dohnanyi and the Cleveland Orchestra and spearheaded by Garrick Ohlsson's heroic playing of the difficult piano part in this rarely performed 1904 concerto...
DVORAK: Symphony No. 9 in E Minor (from the "New World"). Christoph von Dohnanyi conducting the Cleveland Orchestra (London). Out of the media spotlight, Dohnanyi has been quietly restoring the full luster of the Cleveland Orchestra since he succeeded Lorin Maazel in 1984. Rich, detailed and burnished, this handsome "New World" Symphony shows why the Cleveland under its German-born leader is now the best-sounding orchestra in the country. Pass the word...
...return to the glory days of Szell. Ticket sales are up: Severance Hall, the orchestra's home, is 95% subscribed. The orchestra, possessing the richest, most European sound of any U.S. ensemble, is playing at the top of its formidable form again. No one is happier than Dohnanyi. Says he: "Being the chief of an orchestra like this is an honor...
...atonal oratorio, Die Jakobsleiter (Jacob's Ladder), and an impassioned reading of Alban Berg's twelve-tone Violin Concerto, with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong in more traditional fare, which he leads with crisp economic gestures. A propulsive but disciplined reading of Schumann's underrated Symphony No. 2 was one of the highlights of the orchestra's tour, and Dohnányi's authoritative interpretation of Strauss...
...from 42.7% in the election seven months ago. The Christian Democrats dropped to 38.6% from 43.2%, while the environmentalist and pacifist group known as the Greens receded to 6.8%, from 7.7%. Since the Social Democrats did not get a working majority in the June election, Mayor Klaus von Dohnanyi tried forming a coalition with the Greens to run Hamburg. The attempt failed, and because the Social Democrats did not have the majority required to govern on their own, new elections were required...