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GARY GRAFFMAN: PROKOFIEV PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 1 AND 3 (Columbia). Some performers create, some dominate, some execute and others merely recite. Gary Graffman executes, and Prokofiev is his perfect victim. Dazzling fireworks abound in this recording of two percussive concertos, and connoisseurs of pyrotechnics will find nothing missing in Graffman's display; others may hunger for heart in this admittedly impressive recording...
...shake-up in the Hungarian Cabinet that also saw the replacement of President István Dobi by Pál Losonczi, a farming expert who has served as Hungary's Minister of Agriculture since 1960. Both appointments reflect the desire of Party Boss János Kádár, the country's real ruler, to strengthen his own position. Kádár, who called back the Russian tanks during the 1956 uprising in Hungary, has shrewdly conciliated the voices of economic reform in recent years. He knows that in order to dampen opposition...
BEETHOVEN: CELLO SONATAS NOS. 3 and 5 (Angel). From the beauty of tone and sensitivity of interpretation, listeners would scarcely suspect that the cellist is only 22, the pianist 27. Jacqueline du Pré, a child prodigy in England and recent student of the Russian virtuoso Mstislav Rostropovitch, handles her cello as gloriously as any master three times her age; Los Angeles-born Stephen Bishop, former student of Myra Hess, makes an impressive partner...
...trained and elite" in favor of reaching "the simple man who can understand by direct feeling without learning music." A steady but not prolific composer, he excelled more at vocal than orchestral music, and pieces like the suite from his bright, good-humored opera Háry János became concert-hall staples. His life's output was remarkable for its uniform excellence; his unabashedly melodic First Symphony, for example, written when he was 79, evokes the same atmosphere of Transylvanian winterscapes and shepherd's watch fires on the puszta as his earlier works...
HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 1, 2 and 3 (Odyssey). The late Max Goberman was a protean figure on the New York musical scene. He was pit conductor for West Side Story, and his ambition was to record all 104 symphonies of Haydn. This record is the elegant overture to the unfinished project-a crisp, clear reading that points up Haydn's melodic questions and answers, the asides and one-liners that crowd his scores...