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...escalators and ramps to its culmination in the tetrahedronal space frame-skylight. This court is the "rhyme" to the West Building's cupola, but is utterly different in feeling. Here Pei has produced a ceremonial space fit to rank with the main foyer of the Paris Opera or the grandest of the 19th century's glass-and-iron railroad terminals. It projects an encompassing sense of airiness and ebullience, washed by light. From the concourse 80 ft. below, the skylight, a massive and complex structure covering 16,000 sq. ft., acquires a weblike delicacy, with an elegance that is reinforced...
...kept deliberately simple by a chamberistic use of the orchestra and frequent resort to medieval modes and other archaic devices. Yet how fresh, urgent and devoted the result, notably in the central section-The Flight into Egypt. Continuing his pioneering Berlioz cycle, Colin Davis achieves one of his grandest accomplishments on disc...
...musical 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. The show had not fared well on Broadway, and the music culled from it might have passed unremarked?except that the enraptured man on the podium was the renowned cellist and magnificent maestro Mstislav Rostropovich, the N.S.O.'s new permanent conductor, Washington's grandest new monument...
Vast in scale (though not always in size), lush and rigorous in color, his cutouts are among the most admired and influential works of Matisse's entire career. They belong with the grandest affirmations of the élan vital in Western art. Dr. Johnson once remarked that the prospect of being hanged wonderfully concentrates the mind. In 1941, when he was 71, Matisse nearly died of an intestinal blockage and was bedridden for much of his remaining time. But he felt reborn, and the cut-outs would serve as most eloquent witnesses...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-Minor. (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conductor, Arthur Rubinstein pianist, RCA.) This performance, recorded in mono in 1954. remains the pianist's grandest reading of the work, and Reiner's surging accompaniment turns it into the most satisfying D-Minor on records. The new reissue is not in mono or in phony stereo, however. Back in 1954, four years before the advent of stereo, RCA was already experimenting with the technique, and taped this performance simultaneously but separately in stereo. The results can stand comparison with many of today...