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Romantic for Solti means a predominance of German and Austrian music (ranging all the way from Haydn to Wagner, Mahler and Strauss), plus an orchestral tone that is big and red-blooded but not as luxuriant, say, as the Philadelphia Orchestra under Eugene Ormandy. As much as he relishes the Sequoia-like majesty of the Chicago's brass section, and its evergreen forest of strings, Solti is equally partial to the meadowed tranquillity of the wood winds. The delicate lyricism he conjures up between oboe and English horn in the pastoral movement of Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique would...
...Schubert-Mahler Lieder (Jessye Norman, soprano, accompanied by Irwin Gage, piano, Philips; $6.98). In her first solo recording released in the U.S., Jessye Norman, 26, leaves no doubt that she is worth listening to. Soaring from plummy contralto to luminous soprano, her range is flexible if not yet altogether secure. Her sound is heavy for the intimacy of lieder; yet underlying Jessye Norman's dark, lustrous voice, one detects a true lirica spinto that some day perhaps could rival Leontyne Price...
PAINE HALL. Chamber music including Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Jane Struss, alto); and Britten: Suite for Harp. Tickets $3 (Benefit for Nicaragua). April...
...SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS (855 Comm. Ave.). Chamber music for piano, harp, and voice by Beethoven, Britten, and Mahler. Tickets: $2 (benefit for Nicaraguan Relief). March...
Morals, ethics and aesthetics were closely bound in the minds of Vienna's modernists, and Ludwig Wittgenstein was born and raised at the crossroads of this culture. His father was a multimillionaire iron and steel man who also ran one of the finest music salons in Vienna. Mahler, Bruno Walter and a young Spanish cellist named Pablo Casals were frequent guests...