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JANOS STARKER (Mercury Living Presence). Accompanied by Antal Dorati and the London Symphony Orchestra, the splendidly patrician Starker restores freshness to three warhorses: Dvorak's Cello Concerto, Bruch's Kol Nidrei and Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. This is one of several remarkable recordings immaculately transferred from the Mercury Living Presence series (1951-68), which for sound quality remains unsurpassed...
...spell on the shelf is nearing an end. Through the dedicated efforts of scholars like the indefatigable H.C. Robbins Landon and institutions like the Joseph Haydn Institute in Cologne, many previously unpublished operas have been carefully edited and issued in critical editions. Eight have been recorded by Conductor Antal Dorati for Philips records...
...only opera, the troubling, allegorical Bluebeard's Castle, in a concert version-being done several times over. The Boston Symphony performed the Concerto for Orchestra, the piece it premiered in 1944. The biggest American celebration, though, was in Detroit, where 52 guest artists recently joined Conductor Antal Dorati, 74, a BartÓk pupil, for a twelve-day marathon...
...mannered revolutionist." Shy and reserved, he knew that his compositions were difficult, and was not hopeful about their appeal. "He never expected the public to like them and play them," recalled Publisher Ralph Hawkes of Boosey & Hawkes. "Apathy and even aversion to his music was to be found everywhere." Dorati told TIME Correspondent Christopher Redman last week: "Even in Hungary, I was sometimes whistled off the podium...
...unusual, so unsettling? Other composers-Stravinsky, Prokofiev -were rhythmically tricky; still others-Schoenberg, Webern-were even less conventionally melodic. With BartÓk the difference lay in his rejection of the German musical models that had long been dominant. Visiting the dying composer in New York one day, Dorati recalls finding him engrossed in a copy of Edward Grieg's Piano Concerto. Asked why he was studying such a romantic score, BartÓk said that Grieg was important because he had "cast off the German yoke...