Word: rachmaninoff
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...recording in a characteristically lavish way. Vox Records wanted to record what seemed like the whole of the romantic piano literature and asked Ponti to be the performer. Since then he has made 25 LPs, including the complete piano music of Tchaikovsky, and is now working on Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. Largely as a result of this extensive background, he now has enough solo pieces in his head to turn out a six-hour nonstop recital. In addition, he can play any of 50 concertos at the drop of a hat. Or a bowling ball...
...services even more attractive, Captain Brubaker engaged in a bit of huckstering. As a sort of twist on Marryin' Sam's gimmicks in Li'l Abner, he advertised that he would tailor his services to suit the family's taste. They may have rock, Rachmaninoff or Anchors Aweigh if they so choose...
...There is a fireplace he likes to have kept burning and high-fidelity speakers on either side of the grate. His tapes, cartridges and phonograph are in a large walk-in closet near the door to the sitting room. He prefers melodious classics: Van Cliburn playing Grieg, Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff; the theme music from Doctor Zhivago and Victory...
...join a select though all but vanished company of virtuoso pianist-composers. At the close of the 19th and in the early 20th century, the musical type culminated in a series of men who combined powerful and poetic performing styles with highly idiosyncratic ways of writing for the piano-Rachmaninoff as well as Liszt, Busoni and Scriabin. Closer to the present time, the line seems to have ended with Prokofiev and Bartók. All of them, for better or worse, were musicians of originality and vision who made concertgoing fresh and exciting. Though Ogdon has still to make...
Skating to the Rachmaninoff Second Piano Concerto. Petkevich had to alter his routine on the ice when the record missed and cut out some 12 seconds of music. Taking out two planned triple jumps, he made the transition so smoothly that the mistake did not keep one judge from awarding him a perfect 6.0 for composition and style. Five judges gave him 5.9 and the seventh...