Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Pianist Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven, Violinist David Oistrakh performing Bach, and the Bolshoi Ballet in an excerpt from Giselle...
RECORDINGS Elvira, Meet Wolfgang It is impossible to predict where a composer's next record hit will come from, even if the composer is Mozart. A case in point is Deutsche Grammophon's 1965 release of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21, played by Hungarian-born Pianist Geza Anda. In three years it had sold a mere 2,000 copies in the U.S. Then a passage from the recording turned up as a recurrent, haunting theme on the sound track of the Swedish film Elvira Madigan, which opened in New York City last October. Deutsche Grammophon slapped...
JACQUELINE DU PRÉ: HAYDN'S CELLO CONCERTO IN C and BOCCHERINI'S CELLO CONCERTO IN B FLAT (Angel). Israeli Daniel Barenboim has earned a reputation as a first-rank pianist, and his British wife Jacqueline du Pre has won an equally enthusiastic following for her accomplishments with the cello. Neither is shy about displaying virtuosity, and this disk demonstrates that Mr. Barenboim is master of his house even on the concert stage, for he conducts his wife and the English Chamber Orchestra into the crystal world of Haydn and Boccherini with great aplomb. Jacqueline is so absorbed...
GEORGE SZELL: MOZART PIANO QUARTETS (Odyssey). Some items in the splurge of re-releases of "historic performances" are a delight, and this one will remind listeners that the current conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra was no mean pianist in his day. George Szell essayed the dancing mysteries of Mozart with three members of the Budapest String Quartet (Mischa Schneider, Joseph Roismann and Boris Kroyt) in 1946; Szell's playing is sharply self-assured, setting a high-spirited pace for his excellent colleagues...
LEON Kirchner is the Renaissance man of the Music Department. Pianist, teacher, composer, conductor, he seems to be in constant metamorphosis. As contemporary composer, Kirchner has been awarded a Pulitzer prize for a work that combines sounds produced electronically with those of a string quartet; as teacher of courses for music concentrators, he is tireless in his efforts to spread the gospel according to Schoenberg. Yet Friday night there he was, conducting the Cantata Singers and an ensemble of Boston-area professionals in a program consisting solely of music by J. S. Bach...