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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ADOLF SCHERBAUM (Deutsche Grammophon) is the world's foremost master of the baroque trumpet, an instrument without valves (which were not added until the 19th century). On this record he presents music by Vivaldi, Torelli, Telemann, Graupner and Fasch. Clearly conversant with the horn's volatile upper register, Scherbaum sends silver runs and trills echoing through imagined medieval castles or floating above mirrored lakes at dawn...
...Nature is being suffocated beneath spans of concrete. "In many parts of the country the building of a highway has about the same results upon vegetation and human structures as the passage of a tornado or the blast of an atom bomb," protests Critic Lewis Mumford, one of the foremost save-our-trees esthetes. In San Francisco, Folk Singer Malvina Reynolds became so angry with the California Highway Department that she wrote a song...
...music lovers want emotion-great moments-which Szeryng's playing gives them." Real music lovers will have a chance to judge for themselves this October, when Szeryng will play with the New York Philharmonic, premièring a violin concerto by Carlos Chávez, Mexico's foremost contemporary composer...
...goldsmith who peddles his handiwork by day only to redeem it at night by killing off his customers, Cardillac proved the surprise hit of the month-long festival. Stable Serenade. At 40, Fischer-Dieskau is a comparative newcomer to the world's opera houses. Long the foremost interpreter of German lieder, he only recently turned to opera on a more than part-time basis, now divides his time equally between the two mediums. He is, essentially, the thinking man's baritone. With a musicologist's lore and fidelity to the text, he meticulously works out each vocal...
...what came out was a freshet of lush sound that exploited the limits of the instrument's capabilities. At 38, Mstislav Rostropovich is ranked by many critics as the foremost heir to the mantle of Pablo Casals, now 88. More impetuous than the visionary Casals, Rostropovich's attack is charged with a propulsive urgency, his singing tone more darkly burnished...