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NIELSEN: PIANO MUSIC (RCA Victor). Keyboard music was incidental to Nielsen's career, but this lustrous release echoes most of his compositions at their very best. British Pianist John Ogdon is ideally suited to his assignment. His calm, intelligent performance gives coherence to Nielsen's sometimes aggressive brilliance, and in quiet, crystalline passages, such as the finale of Chacone, he achieves a purity of tone reminiscent of the late Walter Gieseking...
MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 13 AND 17 (Columbia). French Pianist Philippe Entremont, 34, makes his recording debut as conductor in addition to playing the piano solos. There is plenty of precedent for the dual role: Bach at the keyboard, Mozart at the violin, playing and leading simultaneously. Entremont the conductor picked Mozart "because of the relatively small forces involved and the relatively simple rhythms," but it is Entremont the pianist who makes this a masterly record. Set off by the responsive but docile Collegium Musicum of Paris, his special gifts of musical veracity and taste enhance familiar music and make...
...could a rogue be so unfeeling as to steal a candelabra from Liberace? The pianist told Massachusetts cops that a thief had swiped the famed symbol-set with 16 small diamonds and worth about $700-from his limo while he was performing in the Boston suburb of Framingham. It was something of a temptation, being mounted on the left rear fender where any passerby could pry it loose. But not all was lost. The rascal didn't get the second candelabra on the other side, so there's still some light amid the darkness...
Powell's progress from jazz to the avant-garde followed an improbable path. He married Actress Martha Scott after World War II, then decided to leave the insecure jazz life and settle in Hollywood as a studio pianist for MGM. One of his major assignments was recording backgrounds for Tom and Jerry cartoons. At first, the constant glissandos of cartoon music put blisters on his knuckles, but a fellow studio pianist, Andre Previn, showed him how to play them with a comb. Meanwhile, Powell pursued his studies in serious music. In 1948 he moved east to study composition with...
...loss. He did not cite Humphrey's brilliant "folksiness" on the debates. Instead he quoted from a scholarly work by a Harvard professor which documented in 700 pages America's unkind feelings towards musicians (long-haired, sexual deviates...) and announced that he was entering a career as a concert pianist...