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...these sonatas, along with a splendid new recording of Mozart's piano concerti Nos. 15 and 16, accompanied by the English Chamber Orchestra and conducted by Jeffrey Tate. Born in Japan, trained in Vienna and now residing in London, Uchida has a repertoire that ranges from Chopin to Ravel, not to mention Bartok and Carter, but she calls Mozart's work a "kind of world in itself . . . so complete that you can forget about the rest. Then you come out, and you are blinded...
Gershwin is not the only performer whose works could be computerized. Rachmaninoff, Ravel and Debussy also recorded piano rolls. But it was such keyboard acrobats as Gershwin and Zez Confrey, playing in the florid "novelty" style developed to boost player-piano sales, who were the stars of their day. Says Wodehouse: "This will open up an era of music that has been largely forgotten...
...There are certain works I've been dying to perform," Vosgerchian said. "For one, Gaspard de la Nuit, by Ravel. I'd also love to be able to play the second etude by Chopin at 6 a.m. perfectly without being warmed...
...creative forces and enhance its public image (not to mention its fund raising) by presenting several new works or perhaps some rarities. N.Y.C.B. excels in this wily art. In the past two decades, the late Balanchine conjured up two substantial homages to Stravinsky (1972, 1982) and one each to Ravel (1975) and Tchaikovsky...
After the Romantic era, itself complex and varied enough, there is really no name under which to group the various composers whose works have stayed in the active repertoire. In France, there were, as in painting, the impressionists, including Faure, Debussy, Ravel, Chausson and Franck...