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...great conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler made his debut at 19, so there are exceptions!" Harding is making his own rules. As a young teenager in Oxford he would conduct groups of friends on weekends. Artistically ambitious, he decided to try a rare piece by Schönberg, but found it so difficult he sought help from his music...
...teacher - who mentioned it to Simon Rattle. Rattle was curious to meet the boy who wanted to conduct Schönberg, and invited him to a rehearsal with his City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. He even let him conduct a bit. Impressed by Harding's knowledge and his confidence, Rattle took Harding on as an assistant and began recommending the young man everywhere. Before long, Harding was plucked from university at 18 by Claudio Abbado, then chief conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, who wanted Harding to assist him. He made his full debut with the Berliners at 21. Now living...
...Aldrich, Dart. 1 1-0 1.000 2 0.000 Marchese, Har. 1 1-0 1.000 5 1.29 Tanner, Navy 2 1-0 1.000 5 2.08 Low'nberg, Yale 3 1-0 1.000 4 2.08 Rinaldi, Penn 3 3-0 1.000 7 2.25 Michael, Navy...
Maurizio Pollini: Piano Music of the 20th Century. Igor Stravinsky: Three Movements from "Petrushka. "Serge Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 7. Béla Bartók: Concertos for Piano and Orchestra Nos. I and 2. Arnold Schönberg: 17 short piano pieces. Anton Webern: Variations for Piano. Pierre Boulez: Second Sonata for Piano. Luigi Nono: Music for Soprano, Piano, Orchestra and Magnetic Tape (Slavka Taskova, soprano, and the Symphony Orchestra of the Bayerischen Rundfunks, Claudio Abbado, conductor; Deutsche Grammophon, five LPs). Pollini's herculean fingering stands out even in that select circle of great young pianists to which...
...could work with musicians. He was an early promoter of the LP and of original cast albums of shows like South Pacific and My Fair Lady; he had talked CBS into backing Lady. In developing the Columbia Masterworks series of classical music, he included contemporary composers: Prokofiev, Schönberg, Bartók -and Lieberson...