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Serge Prokofiev (the composer at the piano, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Piero Coppola; Angel). This new entry in Angel's "Great Recordings of the Century" series presents Prokofiev's own performance of his Third Concerto as he recorded it in London in 1932. Pianist Prokofiev sails through the familiar, exhilarating, gently ironic music with a rock-sure rhythmic stride, a springy touch and a tone that can melt or soar into green lyrical fancies...
...time Piero Piccioni was finally brought to trial in Venice early this year, it was clear that in the eyes of the Italian people his trial would be a test of the government's willingness to administer equal justice under the law. As witness after witness-some 200-contributed his piece of the puzzle, all Italy read column after, column of newsprint on the trial, searching suspiciously for signs of favoritism or a fix. And, under the eyes of all Italy, the Montesi affair slowly but unmistakably changed from "Italy's Dreyfus case" to a sordid little family...
...first fact to emerge was that there was nothing but the unsupported word of Anna Maria Caglio to indicate that Piero Piccioni had ever even met Wilma Montesi. He himself swore that he had not. In her testimony Caglio tangled herself up in so many contradictions that the crowd which had cheered her arrival watched her depart in cold silence save for a single shout of "basta" (enough...
...Renaissance courtroom on Venice's Grand Canal-and demolished his own case. Anna Maria Caglio, he said flatly, was a liar-"a perfidious woman intent on vengeance and dedicated to mud-slinging." The fact was, declared Palminteri, that "there is absolutely no evidence, direct or indirect, against Piero Piccioni." He hinted broadly that the police would want to talk some more with Uncle Giuseppe ("What is he hiding?"). Then he asked that the charges be dropped against Piccioni and his codefendants...
...Messaggero: "Of all the terrible suspicions which tormented public opinion nothing is left: no orgies, no white slavery, no boatloads of prostitutes, nothing." But before the Montesi affair could finally be left to history a new inquiry was in order: How satisfactory was a system of justice which forced Piero Piccioni to suffer three years of public humiliation and judicial jeopardy on the basis of gossip alone...