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Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12; Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Murray Perahia, pianist; Columbia; $5.98). Schumann's piano music-a blend of heroic stride, demonic fantasy and impish humor-requires the age-spanning wisdom and maturity of a Richter or Rubinstein; rarely are the upstart young up to it. In this brilliant recording debut, Bronx-born Murray Perahia, 26, who last year became the first American to win Britain's Leeds International Competition, proves himself to be the rare exception to that rule. Indeed, Perahia may well take a place as the most eloquent lyric...
...performance by Burmese marionettes, and worked in a parody of Tristan that outraged loyal Wagnerians. Since those high old days of the 1920s, Paul Hindemith has turned more serious, and his enormous output (including such masterpieces as the opera Mathis der Maler, the symphonies Symphonische Tänze and Die Harmonic der Welt) has established him as Germany's greatest living composer. But, at 67, he has not lost his ironic touch. He was still exercising it last week as he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic in Der Mainzer Umzug (The Mainz Procession), a new work that may rank with...
Schumann: Carnaval Suite (Myra Hess, pianist; Victor: 6 sides) and Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Kurt Appelbaum, pianist; Musicraft: 6 sides...