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BEETHOVEN: DIABELLI VARIATIONS (RCA Victor). Thirty-three variations on a waltz by the Austrian composer Anton Diabelli pose a formidable test for the virtuoso talents of 32-year-old John Browning. Much talked about but seldom performed, they strain the pianist's technical mastery and his emotional ambience. Browning, who is one of the best of the "percussive" school, passes the technical trials splendidly, but in the melancholy later variations, when he should be exploring Beethoven's darker nature, he appears to be marking time before the florid finale...
...from being a grind, Daisy sings in a Lutheran church choir, takes lessons in both voice and piano. Her father, who died in 1964, was a composer, conductor and pianist. Her mother teaches piano, and her brother Walter topped his class at Columbia University in 1962. Mrs. Hilse says, not immodestly, that Daisy's scholarship "just comes naturally...
...shuttling between Haifa, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem like a rush-hour commuter. Under Mehta's spirited attack, the orchestra's strings have bloomed into full brilliancy. Though staunchly rooted in the classics, the Israeli audiences received his reading of Bartok's First Piano Concerto, with Israeli Pianist Daniel Barenboim, as enthusiastically as they do their Brahms. Mehta was equally successful with Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé Suites, a piece that, until a few years ago, the orchestra could barely manage, owing to a marked deficiency in the brass and woodwinds sections. The short-windedness...
Levin won the concerto contest here last year. He is active as a pianist, harpsichordist, a conductor and composer. He is chief producer at WHRB and has two weekly programs...
...Cellist Gregor Piatagorsky is wrong. Sergei Rachmaninoff [May 13] did take students. One of them was the well-known pianist, Ruth Slenczynska, who describes her lessons with Rachmaninoff in her book Forbidden Childhood. As a teacher, he was apparently a painstaking technician who, after lessons, served his student tea in a glass...