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TCHAIKOVSKY: VIOLIN CONCERTO IN D MAJOR (Melodiya-Angel). An extraordinary father-son act: David Oistrakh, 58, conducts the Moscow Philharmonic, while his son Igor, 35, fiddles. David, long considered one of the world's great violinists, now proves himself, after only five years on the podium, a conductor of major talent, while young Igor shows every indication of keeping the Oistrakh name in the annals of superior violinists. Together, they exploit every nuance in Tchaikovsky's eternally popular concerto, an exercise in wild conversation between the persistent, articulate voice of the violin and the rumbling, colorful orchestra...
...this were not enough for the comparison shoppers, the troupes presented duplicate performances of other works as well. Notably, there was Igor Stravinsky's ritualistic mosaic of a Russian peasant wedding, Les Noces, which the Royal Ballet gave earlier in the for mal, restrained version by Bronislava Nijinska. Last week the Ballet Theater showed off Jerome Robbins' dazzling choreography for it in a vigorous, soulful ensemble tour de force. The Americans also drew 17 curtain calls when they unveiled Eliot Feld's Harbinger, a lively and neatly dovetailed abstraction set to Prokofiev's Fifth Piano Concerto...
...section outsparkled the others, it was "Rubies," in which Balanchine teamed with the composer who has inspired some of his finest ballets, Igor Stravinsky. For Stravinsky's spare, syncopated Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra, Balanchine created lively, Broadway-flavored footwork. In the hot atmosphere of scarlet costumes and lighting, his dancers bobbed, swiveled and stretched in patterns of perky wit and sexy grace. Patricia Neary clowned elegantly, and Edward Villella and Patricia McBride drew cheers for the jazz joie de vivre with which they bounded through their intricate roles...
...matter of selection. Yet once the choice was made--perhaps destroying three prints of alternative spatial arrangement and then framing the fourth--a particular composition may become so perfect that it's hard to imagine that a real choice has ever been made. Arnold Newman's portrait of Igor Stravinsky and his black piano on a white foreground is one of these unquestionable arrangements...
...production of Igor Stravinsky's Histoire du Soldat last week, Seattle Opera Director Glynn Ross got no less a guest star than Stravinsky, who at 84 flew up from Los Angeles to conduct the lyrical fairy tale he composed 50 years ago. In addition, Ross got Saul Steinberg, whose metaphysically satirical cartoons appear in The New Yorker, to design the sets; Actor Basil Rathbone was the narrator, Screen Actor John Gavin the soldier, Ballerina Marina Svetlova the princess, and Dancer Anton Dolin the Devil...