Word: rachmaninoffs
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Some works he had restudied. Others, like Schubert's Ave Maria, which he played in at least 296 of 300 concerts for U.S. troops during the war, he put away again for a rest. And he had pulled out some new ones, like the Debussy, Rachmaninoff and Medtner works that had Manhattan concertgoers holding their breath last week. He had also found plenty of time to play chamber music with his good friend and neighbor, Artur Rubinstein, and with Vladimir Horowitz when he dropped in-not to mention an occasional jam session, with Heifetz rolling out such items...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Seymour Lipkin playing Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini...
...critics may grumble about Eileen's dressy monkeyshines-but they also think that her playing is in Myra Hess's league. U.S. audiences have not yet seen Eileen's act, but millions of moviegoers have heard her (the excellent sound tracks of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 2 helped make The Seventh Veil and Brief Encounter two of the best British movies seen...
...favorite concertos: Beethoven Piano No. 5, Beethoven Violin, Rachmaninoff Piano No. 2, Mendelssohn Violin, Grieg Piano, Tchaikovsky Piano No. 1, Beethoven Piano No. 4, Brahms Violin, Brahms Piano No. 2, Paganini Violin...
Last week, five years after Rachmaninoff's death, Eugene Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra gave the U.S. its first chance to hear Rachmaninoff's First, on the first U.S. symphony network program ever televised (see RADIO). After 50 years, its discords no longer sounded devilish, but neither did they sound heavenly. The First had little of the lush lyricism of his later works; it sounded more like Tchaikovsky's Festival Overture, "1812"-without the cannon...