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Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto in B-Flat Minor (Emil Gilels; Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Fritz Reiner; Victor). Soviet Pianist Gilels in a splendid version of this oft-mauled work. With the driving assistance of one of the most effective orchestras in the U.S.. he turns in a performance that is always at the peak of expression, whether tender, fiery or aggressive...
...like the atmosphere"), other European critics also raved. After he reached the U.S. in 1948, he first landed a job with the Dallas Symphony and soon after with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. U.S. critics discovered his excellence on records (Period). He was the only principal player Conductor Reiner, a fellow Hungarian, took with him when he moved from the Met to the Chicago Symphony three years...
Last week, with Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony, Janos Starker played a piece that might reduce many a strong man to sentimentality-Schumann's Cello Concerto. Under the pale lights, Starker's sunken cheeks looked drained of blood as he bent to the romantic work, but he never bowed to its maudlin potentialities. His tone was neither too plump nor too lean, but pure, tense and silken. He sculpted the long, melodic lines precisely, restraining himself where a lesser musician might have whipped up some phony passion, then letting his instrument sing passionately, when passion was called...
...Chicago Symphony, under Fritz Reiner, gave the U.S. première of Rolf Liebermann's Concerto for Jazz Band and Symphony Orchestra. The Sauter-Finegan Band-sporting bright red jackets amid the longhairs' white ties and tails-played tricky syncopations and harsh tones that showed Swiss Composer Liebermann to be a close follower of Stan Kenton's jazz-style arrangements. The symphonic parts of the work were less exciting, but everybody, from the musicians onstage to the last hipster in the auditorium, had a fine time. Conductor Reiner, who started off his career as a percussionist...
Occasionally, the answers are fairly amusing, but the panel (Playwright Marc Connelly, Actor Carl Reiner, Singer Denise Lor) floundered a good deal on the open ing show and were saved only by the uninhibited Gallicisms of the guest panelist, Actress Denise Darcel...