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...While Kondrashin & Co. were celebrating the joys of collectivist music making last week, the Ford Foundation announced grants totaling $85 million to U.S. orchestras. It is the largest amount ever given at one time by any foundation to any of the arts...
...made its triumphant debut in Moscow in 1956, Russian audiences were shocked to discover what the outside world had long acknowledged-that U.S. orchestras were the world's finest. Russian cultural circles began buzzing with talk of the "orchestra gap." One of the most outspoken critics was Kiril Kondrashin, then conductor with the Bolshoi opera, who bluntly declared that Russian orchestras had to shape up. Four years later, when Kondrashin was appointed conductor of the Moscow Philharmonic, he admitted that "the U.S. orchestra is the ideal I am working toward...
...audiences last week had an opportunity to hear how successful Kondrashin has been, as the 112-member Moscow Philharmonic launched its first tour of the U.S. with a series of concerts in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. Consensus: an uneven but promising orchestra of international rank. The Moscow brass and woodwinds were bright and full-throated, but the strings sounded thin and oddly colorless. Though sometimes lacking in subtlety and balance, the orchestra played with great exuberance and a kind of healthy sentimentality. The tall, imposing Kondrashin, who does not use a baton, in the belief that the face...
...PROKOFIEV: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 3. (Kyril Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Philharmonic; Mercury). Byron Janis blasts off like a rocket with the orchestra ablaze behind him, and even when they get back to earth, they are still incandescent. The First Rachmaninoff Concerto on the other side is equally brilliant. A harmonious international collaboration, the record was made with U.S. equipment in Bolshoi Hall and won the French Oscar, a Grand Prix du Disque...
...Janis' second Russian tour were both judges and contestants from the Tchaikovsky Competition, plus Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson. For the occasion, Janis attempted a staggering tour de force: three major concertos in a single concert. While rehearsing the Rachmaninoff First and the Schumann and Prokofiev Thirds with Conductor Kiril Kondrashin and the Moscow Philharmonic, Janis felt "like a race horse trying for the Triple Crown." Conductor Kondrashin was confident: "I have now heard a pianist who can play three utterly different concertos with a perfect sense of style -one of the greatest pianists of this age." The audience apparently agreed...