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Chopin: Preludes (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 8 sides). This one deserves to join the great company of Rubinstein's Mazurka and Nocturne albums. Some of Chopin's best music, and some of Pianist Rubinstein's finest playing. Recording: excellent...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...
...piano pieces. For months he played a new game of solitaire, juggling the Chopin cards into six well-balanced programs. Said he: "To play them in chronological order would have been a stupid idea. Often I spent hours trying to decide if a certain etude should go before a mazurka or after...
...bits she will do a Mazurka in Jazz...
...Hungarian March, "Rakoczy"Berlioz *Fantasy, "Zion" Phillipson *Mazurka from "A Life for the Czar" Glinka *"Carmen," Fantasia Bizet *Overture to "The Impresario" Mozart *Prelude to Act III, "Die Meistersinger" Wagner *Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18 Rachmaninoff Soloist; Jesus Maria Sanroma *"Briar Rose," Waltz from "The Sleeping Beauty" Tchaikovsky *Song of the Volga Bargemen Arranged by Jacchia *Sixth Hungarian Dance Brahms *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Stors, Harvard Square...