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Last week, for the first time, Manhattan critics got to hear Koussy's wonder boy. For his Town Hall debut, Norman's program was by no means all apple pie: a Handel sonata, a Bach partita for unaccompanied violin, two difficult Paganini caprices. By the time he was halfway through the Handel, critics were wondering at the sureness of his phrasing and rhythmic pulse. When he had finished with the Paganinis and a blazing performance of Sarasate's tricky Zigeunerweisen, there was no question about the finish of his technique. Twenty-year-old Norman Carol was more...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Seymour Lipkin playing Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini...
Beethoven: String Quartet No. 16 (the Paganini Quartet; Victor, 6 sides). Here, in Beethoven's last great quartet, is the kind of music that Pianist Artur Schnabel describes as "better than it can be played." The Paganini Quartet version is almost the equal of the old Budapest String Quartet performance; the recording is much better...
Since then, he and the Natural Seven have inflicted on the nation Pagan Ninny's Keep 'Er Goin' Stomp (from Violinist Paganini's Perpetual Motion), Moe Zart's Turkey Trot, Cigareetes, Whuskey, and Wild, Wild Women, and such publicity stunts as advertising for an ugly vocalist ("preferably with two heads. Neither must be attractive"). Through it all, Red has been miserable. Now things are going so well, he doubts if he'll ever get out of the band business. Says he: "It's like gumbo in the spring. You just...
Debussy: Quartet in G Minor (Paganini String Quartet, Victor, 7 sides). The two inner movements of Debussy's only work in this form are as beautifully made as anything Debussy ever wrote. The Paganini plays it well. Recording (on Viny-lite): fair...