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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major (Saxon State Orchestra, Karl Bohm conducting, with Walter Gieseking; Columbia: 8 sides). But for the still-smoldering fire of two grand old men of pianism (Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff) French-born, 44-year-old Walter Gieseking would be ranked by most connoisseurs as today's No. i pianist. Here Pianist Gieseking gives Beethoven's most lyric piano concerto its finest recording to date...
...never talks to fan magazine writers, spurns nightclubs, carries his dislike of Hollywood parties to the point of rudeness. This has made him much sought after and Hollywood's premier hostess, Mrs. Basil Rathbone, is reported this year to have announced that she would trade Stokowski, Rubinstein and Rachmaninoff for one Brent appearance at a party...
Last week at Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, Bell engineers gave an invitation performance of their stereophonic recordings of the Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted and enhanced by silver-maned Leopold Stokowski. After listening to the thunderings and whisperings, Pianist Sergei Rachmaninoff was inclined to doubt the musical worth of the recordings. Said he: "Too much enhancing; too much Stokowski...
...Austro-Hungarian colony in the U. S. are the White Russians. Some 12,000 of them pine for restoration of a Tsar in the person of Grand Duke Vladimir, son of Grand Duke Cyril. The Whites boast a few great and a few notorious names-Sergei Koussevitzky, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Igor Sikorsky, Prince Matchabelli, Vadim Makaroff, the marrying Mdivanis. Mostly they have spent the last 22 years toasting the old days. Though White legitimists protest that they would support a Tsar only if he were called back by the people of Russia, and though the Soviet's muzhiks and rabotniks...
Only three other pianists (all world-famed veterans) could top his earning power: Ignace Jan Paderewski, Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff. In 1933 he joined music's royal family by marrying Wanda Toscanini, daughter of the world's No. 1 Maestro. By 1935 he had sold out 350 U. S. concerts. At $1,500 a performance, his concerts were grossing $300,000 a year...