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...composer. Here are some of his finest concerto recordings-notably the Brahms with Hamilton Harty (1928), the Beethoven with Bruno Walter (1932), the Prokofiev First, Mozart Fourth and the Mendelssohn with Sir Thomas Beecham (1933-35) and, at long last on LP, the Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonatas Nos. 5 and 10 with Artur Schnabel (1948). Though the sound is monaural, it has been restored lovingly and retains much of the warmth that characterized the best of Europe's prewar 78-r.p.m. shellacs...
...CHOPIN Nocturnes followed, nos. 17 and 4. The former included many finely-shaped phrases--the enharmonic transition midway through the piece, for example. I objected only to the occasional blurring of the pulse by too much tempo rubato in sections containing extensively syncopated accompaniments. Nocturne 4 was treated with a delicate sense of balance; happily the contrasting con fuoco middle section was not overplayed...
...playing of the Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies (Nos. 12 and 17) was startling--without a trace of the vulgarity usually read into this composer's works. One might argue for a "grander" rendition of no. 12, although I was quite satisfied to hear, for once, the purely musical aspects of Liszt. The absence of ostentation was particularly appropriate in the more austere, tonally ambiguous seventeenth Rhapsody, in which it is evident, contrary to popular notion, what a serious composer Liszt often...
...instrument, the French horn lacks the innate variety of the piano or violin. That is a fact to be noted, then forgotten, while listening to this ravishing LP. Tuckwell plays the concertos as though they were as emphatically profound as anything Mozart ever wrote-which in the case of Nos. 3 (K. 447) and 4 (K. 495) is not too far from the truth...
...contrast, there has been a crackdown on striptease in Hungary, which had been far more permissive than East Germany. One reason for the restraint was Party Leader János Kádár's fear that too much emulation of Western ways might provoke the Russians, who then might interfere with Hungary's pioneering economic reforms, which feature some capitalist-style incentives. There also has been a crackdown in Rumania. For years, the Rumanians encouraged stripping as part of the country's receptivity to Western ways. But since last summer, when President Nicolae Ceausescu began...