Word: pianist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12; Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Murray Perahia, pianist; Columbia; $5.98). Schumann's piano music-a blend of heroic stride, demonic fantasy and impish humor-requires the age-spanning wisdom and maturity of a Richter or Rubinstein; rarely are the upstart young up to it. In this brilliant recording debut, Bronx-born Murray Perahia, 26, who last year became the first American to win Britain's Leeds International Competition, proves himself to be the rare exception to that rule. Indeed, Perahia may well take a place as the most eloquent lyric...
After she married Conductor-Pianist Daniel Barenboim in 1967, Jackie's active career became almost frenetic. When she and Daniel were not performing together, they were jetting off separately to tour on different continents, then rushing back home to London to be with each other. It did not seem all that unusual when Du Pré, in the summer of 1971, came down with what was described as nervous exhaustion and canceled all her concerts for the following season...
...prodigies have had better luck. At 16 he was introduced to Count Guillermo de Morphy, a patron of the arts and adviser to Spain's Queen Maria Cristina. The count tutored Casals in several languages and presented him to the Queen, who was an enthusiastic pianist. Soon the Queen and the young cellist were playing duets together...
ELIOT HOUSE LIBRARY. Sarah Brink, harpsichordist, in recital. Works of L. Couperin, Frescobaldi, Boismortier, and Bach. Free. Friday, October 26, 8:30 p.m. KIRKLAND HOUSE JCR. Hanni Schmid-Wyss, pianist, in recital. Works of Beethoven, Rossini, Bartok, and Mendelssohn. Free. Friday, October...
...HIGHLIGHT was the Beethoven Concerto No. 5 in E Flat, "The Emperor Concerto." Hugh Wolff is a brilliant pianist, and proved it throughout the piece. From the opening ritornello, introducing all the themes, he provided the orchestra with terrific energy which did not lapse in the entire first movement (the longest Beethoven ever wrote). The recapitulation was a great moment of artistry--both pianist, conductor, and orchestra demonstrating the origin of the word "concerto" in the Italian "to strive with". Each section of the orchestra was at its best at the end of the first movement...