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Lynn Chang, fresh from his spectacular first prize in the Paganini, and Richard Kogan, fresh from his spectacular performance with the Bach Society, play the Kreutzer and Brahms's 3rd violin sonata at the Gardner Museum Sunday afternoon--but they'll be playing a similar concert next week at Sanders, closer to home. Also of special interest is Poulenc's Babar the Elephant, for piano and narrator, Saturday evening at Currier House...
...romantic with unsurpassed gifts for pianistic col or, rhythmic thrust and pure trickery. But his most distinguishing trait at the keyboard was probably the pesky individual life of each of his fingers. When he wrote for himself, as in his four Piano Concertos and Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (Volume 5 in the new release), he filled his pages with thickets of notes. So clustered are they that one suspects that he begrudged even a moment's pause or silence, at least when there was a finger unoccupied...
...Wright's laudable conscientiousness stems from the unfortunate paucity of masterworks for his instrument: those who have little often appreciate most. And one suspects further that Messrs. Totenberg, Neikrug, and Shure would render quite satisfactory performances of any of the 'best-loved' solo repertoire for their respective instruments--Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Bruch, Bloch, Tchaikovsky....Thus it seems that the relevant question to be considered by performers, critic, and audience alike, is: what, by comparison, is a Brahms trio...
Last week Ponti began a recital at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall with a Beethoven sonata at 7:50 p.m. By 8:20 he had flung himself into one of the fiercest challenges in the entire piano literature: both books of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Paganini. He continued with Chopin's powerful Sonata in B Minor, another sonata by Scriabin, a wrist-cracking Etude for the Left Hand by Blumenfeld, and finally Stravinsky's Three Scenes from Petrouchka, a piece that bristles with so many notes that much of it is written on three...
Szeryng brings it all off with dash and finesse, but without quite removing the suspicion that there must have seemed more to it when Paganini played it. "The work," he says, "makes me feel like I'm jetting from heaven to hell at incredible speed." It must be reported, however, that when he performed it in public recently at London's Royal Festival Hall, the devil did not appear beside...