Word: pianistically
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...Preludes, Feltsman's reputation grew even while he was in musical exile. In the gossipy world of concert music, word of prodigiously gifted Soviets zips along the grapevine allegro vivace; unheard Russians like Feltsman tend to loom large in the imagination of Western audiences eagerly seeking a new pianistic hero. Then reality sets in. For every Vladimir Ashkenazy, a brilliant pianist in both technique and taste, there have been disappointments like the vapid Youri Egorov and the clangorous Lazar Berman...
...that as it may, it is difficult to imagine that Brahms would have approved of the overly pensive performance of the sonata in G major, Op. 78, with which violinist Alan Gilbert '89 and pianist Ben Loeb '88-'89 opened their otherwise fine recital last Saturday night in Paine Hall...
...couple of botched passages by pianist Loeb couldn't come close to spoiling the rapt beauty of the Andante tranquillo and Allegretto grazioso. Here one heard a surprisingly fine rapport between pianist and violinist, though the balance was too far slanted toward the violin. Loeb seemed too close to the edge of the keys, and his sound was not as well defined as it might have been...
...center of Hite's life these days is a West German concert pianist more than 20 years her junior, Friedrich Horicke, 24, whom she married 2 1/2 years ago. Unlike her disgruntled respondents in Women and Love, Hite is euphoric about her husband. "With some people you feel like the whole world is open and everything is possible," she says. "That's how I feel with Fred...
David Feurzeig, pianist...