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ALEXIS WEISSENBERG: RACHMANINOFF PI ANO CONCERTO NO. 3 IN D MINOR (RCA Victor); CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E MINOR, PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MINOR, and SMALLER WORKS FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (Angel, 3 LPs). After returning to the U.S. last year from a decade-long self-imposed exile, Weissenberg, now 39, changed his first name from Sigi to Alexis. He obviously had some new musical ideas on his mind too. In the Rachmaninoff, the Bulgarian-born pianist displays a Horowitz-like technique, a poet's heart and vast reserves of power; he throws up wave...
EMIL GILELS: BEETHOVEN'S FIVE PIANO CONCERTOS (Angel, 5 LPs). Recorded last April in Cleveland with Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra, this set often finds the Soviet pianist more in a mood to polish his tone than to push Beethoven's cause. The concertos are all neatly and expertly done, but they rarely express the excitement, abandon and sheer joy of the music. Gilels does better in the three sets of solo variations that constitute the sidefillers; the 32 Variations in C Minor is especially notable for its logic and rhythmic verve. But as a whole, this ambitious...
...that they share with his father and stepmother on the city's Far North Side. Ron, 28, has had only one vacation in the past three years. Mostly the Hoppes stick close to their home and four children. They relax by listening to their record collection of 450 LPs (Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Kenton), watching television on a set bought with quarters saved in a giant Seagram's bottle, or taking the family tor a weekend picnic on Cedar Lake...
JACQUES BREL IS ALIVE AND WELL AND LIVING IN PARIS (Columbia, two LPs). Brel writes and sings in French, but his approach to life travels well. He attacks indifference, loneliness and unhappiness the way a windmill attacks the air, stirring up little tempests with whirring music and sharp imagery. Juxtaposing sweet, lyrical melodies with the words of protest and defiance, he speaks of "illness, war, the young ones, myself." A quartet of empathetic American performers interpret Brel in English with inventive arrangements and passionate delivery. The hopeful Bachelor's Dance (La Bourrée du Célibataire...
BOSTON SYMPHONY CHAMBER PLAYERS (RCA Victor, 4 LPs). The nine players present a well-balanced, impeccably performed concert of Mozart, Brahms, Schubert, Poulenc, Villa-Lobos, Alexei Haieff, and the young American, Michael Colgrass. Having done so, they then upstage themselves by turning the fourth disk of the album over to a delightful discussion of chamber music by Peter Ustinov. "A Walter Mitty as far as music is concerned," Ustinov gives his imitations of a flute ("With my long, pendulous upper lip, I do better without the flute") and bassoon ("a very romantic instrument"). His musical god is Mozart. Noting that...