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Pianist-author Charles Rosen will be the 1980-81 Charles Eliot Norton Professor of Poetry. Rosen, who won the 1972 National Book Award for his "The Classical Form: Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven," will give six Norton lectures and two recitals of Beethoven piano pieces next year...
...same spontaneity comes through in their recordings. Their most recent releases are a remarkable survey of 43 Haydn trios, many of which had fallen into neglect. Polished as the performances are, they also vibrate with the joy of discovering treasures in seldom heard pieces and new ways of treasuring familiar ones...
...more than 200 LPs, most of them with the Academy, making him one of the most recorded maestros in history. And far from breaking down every few bars, he has built an international reputation for graceful, lively, intelligently shaped performances, especially of the Baroque composers and Mozart and Haydn. Though he continues to record with the Academy, he has long since ceased to appear regularly with it, having moved on to lead the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra for ten years and guest-conduct similar groups all over the world...
...Haydn, The Complete Symphonies (London, 48 LPs, 1971-75). Antal Dorati's stylish compilation of the 104 symphonies reveals the Papa Haydn of legend as a supremely virile innovator...
...Haydn: String Quartets, Opus 20, Nos. 1-6 (Juilliard Quartet, Columbia; 3 LPs). Propulsive rhythms, a biting attack, hard tonal sheen - these are the qualities listeners have come to expect from the Juilliard, and they are not necessarily the best qualities for Haydn. But the surprise of this set is the mellowness and suppleness, the emotional inwardness of the performances. All to the good, since these are pivotal works. In them the 40-year-old Haydn deepened the content of his lightly ingratiating early quartets, incorporating folk tunes into a more tightly woven texture and often finishing off with...