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...National Symphony was one of America's cold war trophies, but his baton work has only rarely matched his peerless way with the cello. Consider a new Italian-issued CD (Intaglio) with Gennady Rozhdestvensky and the London ! Symphony, recorded in Carnegie Hall in 1967. Rostropovich sails through Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso and digs into Prokofiev's Concertino, written for the cellist and completed by him after Prokofiev's death in 1953. But the glory of the recording is a magisterial reading of Elgar's Cello Concerto; Rostropovich's probing musical mind goes to the heart of this sorrowful masterpiece...
Cello Colours (Andre Navarra; Capitol). A varied recital of fine celloing, effective whether in the melancholic atmosphere of Faure's Elegie or the gee-whiz intricacies of Tchaikovsky's Pezzo Capriccioso. French Cellist Navarra gives the lie to the old saying that cellists are incurable sentimentalists...
...secluded cliffside villa near Naples early last week, scarcely an hour passed without the insistent jangle of the telephone or the arrival of a score of pleading telegrams, the arrival or departure of a pezzo grosso (big shot). Finally the white-haired old gentleman in the villa gave in -as he probably intended to do all along. And so, five days after his resignation as president of Italy's Constitutional Court (TIME, Oct. 1), shrewd Enrico de Nicola, 78, went back...
...restless traveler between seasons, he is known and feared in the kitchens of Italian restaurants from Manhattan's Del Pezzo's to San Francisco's Fior d'Italia. On a recent trip to Los Angeles he was met by the proprietor at the door of Victor Hugo's, his favorite local eating place...
...Tschaikowsky--Trio in A minor for violin, violoncello and piano. "In Memory of a Great Artist." I. Pezzo Elegiaco. II. Tema con Variazione. Violin, M. Grunberg '07; violoncello, A. W. Sprague 1G.; pianoforte, P. G. Clapp...
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