Word: pianistics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SAINT-SAENS: CONCERTOS NOS. 2 AND 4 FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (Columbia). The 31-year-old French pianist Philippe Entremont tosses off both virtuoso works with steel-fingered bravura. Saint-Saens' flashy climaxes are mostly rhetoric, but as Entremont plays them they are satisfying to the ear; in the lyrical passages, he is able to draw a fine melodic line between melancholy and pathos. The brilliant splashes of orchestral color are furnished by the Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting...
...Epic). The Hungarian-born Mozart specialist Lili Kraus plans to record all the piano concertos, Mozart's crowning achievements in instrumental music. She has begun with Nos. 12, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 26, all written after Mozart, renowned as Austria's greatest pianist, moved to Vienna. His playing was famed for its singing touch and exquisite taste. Eschewing broad contrasts and romantic rubato, Miss Kraus emulates the 18th century master...
BRAHMS: SONATAS FOR CELLO AND PIANO, NOS. 1 AND 2 (Mercury). Cellist Janos Starker and Pianist Gyorgy Sebok play the duets with the broad range of feeling demanded, especially in the great F major sonata (No. 2). But they never rhapsodize. Among his fellow romantics, Brahms was a classicist; so, one gathers from these banked fires, is Starker...
BEETHOVEN: ORDEAL AND TRIUMPH (ABC, 10-11 p.m.).-This special studies the early, highly creative years of the composer. It features the Boston Symphony Orchestra and Pianist Claude Frank. U.N.C.L.E.'s David McCallum is the voice of Beethoven...
...showed off two supreme musicians Friday night: flutist Karen Monson '66, and pianist Ursula Oppens '65. They are quite a pair. Both won the concerto contest in their freshman years. Both spent three or four years becoming legends among Harvard concertgoers. Both face futures of great promise as professional performers. Both are very exciting musicians...