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Albeniz: Iberia (complete); Navarra. (Michel Block pianist, Connoisseur Society; 2 LPs.) Enrique Fernandez Arbos' glittering orchestrations helped make El Puerto, Triana and the ten other pieces in Iberia popular throughout the world. But, as Alicia de Larrocha has proved over the years in three recordings of the suite, the piano originals are as atmospherically Spanish as one could wish and, in the end, preferable. Here is a recording by the French American Michel Block that not only challenges De Larrocha's supremacy, but topples it. Block's playing has an earthy swagger and poetic sweep that...
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 in D-Minor. (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conductor, Arthur Rubinstein pianist, RCA.) This performance, recorded in mono in 1954. remains the pianist's grandest reading of the work, and Reiner's surging accompaniment turns it into the most satisfying D-Minor on records. The new reissue is not in mono or in phony stereo, however. Back in 1954, four years before the advent of stereo, RCA was already experimenting with the technique, and taped this performance simultaneously but separately in stereo. The results can stand comparison with many of today...
...jazz with a personal style that has never lost its passion or ingenuity. In this extended set, recorded during performance last November at the Showboat Lounge, Silver Spring. Md., he fronts a six-man combo working the mainstream of jazz today. Standard tunes are blended enticingly with originals by Pianist Mike Melillo, Guitarist Harry Leahey and Woods himself, and there is even a breathtaking moto perpetuo treatment of I'm Late from the Disney Alice in Wonderland. How that rabbit runs...
...enthusiasts of everything Russian from Tolstoy to dasha in Georgia, the Kirkland House Music Society is presenting Russian Concertos in Sanders Theatre. Gerald Moshell will conduct the Kirklandgrad Philharmonic in a programme consisting of works by Rachmaninoff (Piano Concerto No. 2) featuring Lydia Artymiw as solo pianist and Stravinsky (Violin Concerto) with violinist Lynn Chang, Rachmaninoff's "Vocalise" and Stravinsky's ""Dylan Thomas in Memoriam" will also be presented here at Kirkland House JCR at 8:30 p.m. Tickets are $1 at the door...
...that breathes ecstatically about "Southern Nights" just now when summer looks when it might be making a final long-awaited appearance but if you are a properly brought up culture-vulture you will probably go for Hector Berlioz's "Nuits d'Ete." Janet Bedell, mezzosoprano, and Robert Cohen, pianist, will present this recital in Holmes Hall Living Room...