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...opening its Concert Series with the Budapest Quartet and closing on Sunday afternoon with the Paganini, Picrian sodality has made comparisons inevitable. The contrast, however, is not of mere quality--both are superb organizations--but rather of differing musical conceptions...
...closing Beethoven Sonata Op. 111, but they seriously detracted from Brahm's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel. This work is rarely performed, partly because of its extreme difficulty and partly because it represents a far more abstract approach than the familiar Variations on a Theme by Paganini. Levy's playing lacked the rhythmic urgency needed to keep the Handel set form foundering, in its own intellectual richness. And a lack of clarity first apparent in the swirling Appassionata finale let Brahms' Fugue become a hodge-podge...
Last year he composed and played some first-rate background music for the British film Genevieve-although for U.S. consumption his name was left off the credits. The Manchester Guardian's Neville Cardus compared him to Paganini: "It would be hard to prove that anybody playing any instrument in the world of music today plays with more than Mr. Adler's art and virtuosity...
Asked a newsman: Was Adler bitter about the U.S.? No, not about the U.S., only about some people, replied the harmonica Paganini. "I have a way of channelizing these things...
Brahms: Variations on a Theme by Paganini (Charles Rosen, pianist; London). One of the 19th century's biggest display pieces, requiring "steel fingers" and a "lion's heart." Pianist Rosen has the fingers but undersells his heart: his variations are clean, fiery and absolutely unsentimental...