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After 13 variations evoking in turn Bach, George Winston and Liszt, Rzewski plunged from a protracted Beethovenian trill into a truly staggering display of improvised fire-works for his cadenza. In a few minutes Rzewski demonstrated his command of Harlem stride bass, cartoonish sound effects, and Chopinesque fabric melody, while referring back to Beethoven just often enough to excuse his departures. The conclusion was a gradual rise from the lowest D-flat (tonic for the Beethoven) to the highest note on the keyboard, which was repeated more and more softly and less and less frequently until after a long rest...
TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY PIANISM IS shrouded in a golden-era haze, but just how good was it really? A new double CD from Pearl Records, THE PUPILS OF LISZT, provides some clues. Here are such pedagogic scions of the Hungarian firebrand as Eugen D'Albert, Moriz Rosenthal, Arthur Friedheim and six others. Even allowing for poor recording quality and the advanced age of some of the performers, what is remarkable is how ordinary most of the playing is. Only the dazzling if sometimes clumsy Rosenthal and the elegant Jose Vianna da Motta would get a second listen today. Friedheim...
Pianist Richard Field--performs works by Bach, Beethoven, Liszt, and William Grant Still. Boston College in Glasson 100 on the Chestnut Hill Campus. Thursday, Feb. 20, 8 p.m. Free...
...Wagner cannot be heard in Israel; the Symphony of Rishon Lezion, a Tel Aviv suburb, violated the taboo two years ago, to little or no outcry. And it is not as if the Nazis didn't turn the works of other composers, such as Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Liszt's Les Preludes, into political totems as well. Yet Wagner's unique resonance continues to sound, louder and more forcefully than that of the others...
...EVGENY KISSIN: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT CONCERT (RCA, 2 CDs). For once, a Russian pianist who deserved all his pre-debut hype. In September 1990, before the toughest audience in the world, Kissin, then 18, wowed 'em with Schumann, Prokofiev, Liszt and Chopin...