Word: riccardo
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...rehearsing with him. "Bach was another world to me," she says. "At the beginning I was always in a rush. Karajan taught me to take the tempo tranquilly, to take a breath. This is something I use for everything." To those names, add Sir Georg Solti, Zubin Mehta, Riccardo Chailly -- a stellar fan club...
...displays his gifts in full flower. The Third (1985) harks back to Bach in a tour de force of stylistic synthesis, while the 1988 Fourth (which, confusingly, the composer also calls his Symphony No. 5) takes an unfinished work by Mahler as its launching pad. Riccardo Chailly and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw achieve lift-off and soar in both...
Benevolence and Betrayal has heroes as well as moral lepers. Rabbi Riccardo Pacifici risked his life by staying in Genoa after its occupation by German troops to minister to the city's large Jewish refugee population; he was one of some 7,000 Italian Jews to die in concentration camps. Carlo Schonheit, a cantor from Ferrara, and his son Franco were among the handful who survived Buchenwald, the horrors of which Alexander Stille describes with chilling understatement. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, the frail Archbishop of Genoa, unhesitatingly agreed to carry on the work of a Jewish relief organization after...
...SCHOENBERG: GUERRELIEDER. Riccardo Chailly conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony (London/Decca, 2 CDs). The high-water mark of late -- really late -- romanticism, Gurrelieder will come as a revelation to those who equate Schoenberg with the chilly 12-tone system. The fiery song cycle, really a music drama about doomed love and transcendence, gets a voluptuous Wagnerian reading from Chailly...
...SCHOENBERG: GUERRELIEDER. Riccardo Chailly conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony (London/Decca, 2 CDs). The high-water mark of late -- really late -- romanticism, Gurrelieder will come as a revelation to those who equate Schoenberg with the chilly 12-tone system. The fiery song cycle, really a music drama about doomed love and transcendence, gets a voluptuous Wagnerian reading from Chailly...