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...Ballet of the Chicks in Their Shells" was so coy that many people in the audience laughed aloud. "Cum mortuis in lingua mortua," ("Among the dead in a dead language") became eerily reminiscent of the eighth Brahms Paganini variation in book...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Amazin' Awadagin Hits Boston | 11/21/1997 | See Source »

...advertise itself. This is mostly Liszt's fault, but things would have improved if the others had played with even a fraction of Sekino's drive. Her music-making seemed to grow out of a deep understanding of earlier influences on the concerto's temperament: Liszt's Funerailles, "Paganini" Etudes and Piano Sonata in B Minor...

Author: By Matthew A. Carter, | Title: HRO Tackles Challenging Program with Striking Results | 3/6/1997 | See Source »

There was a time when classical music was western culture's pop music. Franz Liszt and Niccolo Paganini were the Elvis and Bono of their day, playing to spellbound crowds and being mobbed by screaming fans. Today, supporters of classical music worry that its place in popular culture is in jeopardy. But classical music continues to thrive, if in a slightly different...

Author: By Daniel Altman, | Title: Music For the Masses | 10/23/1995 | See Source »

...Julian Rachlin struggle to get recognition, Sarah Chang remains largely untested outside of choreographable showpiece repertoire, and how much longer Helene Grimaud and Evgeny Kissin shall wax incandescent remains to be seen. I will be the first to laud Midori for her accomplishments in the virtuoso repertoire, especially with Paganini, but I find the mystical element "X" which differentiates between proficiency and artistry missing in just about everything else she has put on disc...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Midori Plays to Mediocrity | 12/8/1994 | See Source »

Rounding off the work is Paganini's Moto perpetuo composed in the context of an era obsessed with finding a perpetual motion machine. Fortunately for violinists, Paganini's perpetual motion piece does have an end. Though Shaham sets no speed records here, falling shy of Michael Rabin's definitive account by about 15 seconds, the clarity that he achieves amidst the unceasing cascade of notes will set the standard for some time to come...

Author: By Brian D. Koh, | Title: Shaham and Sollsher Top All the Charts | 7/22/1994 | See Source »

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