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Schumann: The Four Symphonies and The Piano Concerto (Leon Fleisher, pianist; the Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell conducting; Epic, 4 LPs). Szell's readings are blazing or majestic as the occasion demands, and they may even temporarily lay to rest the old debate about whether Schumann knew how to write for any instrument other than the piano...
...Janis is a member in good standing of the talented generation of pianists who have emerged in the U.S. since World War II: Van Cliburn, Gary Graffman, Eugene Istomin, Leon Fleisher, John Browning, Glenn Gould (a Canadian, but a product of the U.S. concert circuit). All of them are fine technicians-in Janis' case, he thinks, because he had Russian training. "To Russians, the important thing is first knowing the instrument and then having the emotion; Germans, on the other hand, feel that first you play the music and then the instrument...
Schumann: Piano Concerto in A Minor (Leon Fleisher, pianist; the Cleveland Orchestra, under George Szell; Epic). When he won Belgium's famed International Concours in 1952, recalls San Francisco-born Leon Fleisher, he was known as a garden-variety YAP (Young American Pianist). In time he became a DYAP (Distinguished Young American Pianist); now, at 32, he is a fully developed DAP (Distinguished American Pianist), as this superb reading of a popular war horse (22 available LP versions) demonstrates. Fleisher finds a Schumann that is virile, sinewy, full of sharply-profiled contrasts of tone and tempo...
...steps from the podium next season after leading the Seattle Symphony in the premiere of a piano concerto by Leon Kirchner, Conductor Milton Katims will stop at' the Orpheum movie theater. There, before an audience of symphony patrons, he will engage the soloist of the evening, Pianist Leon Fleisher, in a three-game pingpong match. Katims may lose, for Fleisher has a widely feared forehand slam, but he expects to collect about $10,000 from spectators for the symphony's sustaining fund...
...judges: Abram Chasins, Gitta Gradova, George Szell, Rudolf Serkin, Rudolf Firkusny, Leopold Marines, Xadia Reisenberg, Alfred Wallenstein, Leon Fleisher and two previous Leventritt winners, Eugene Istomin and Gary Graffman...