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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). "Benjamin Britten and His Aldeburgh Festival" recounts the contributions of one of the world's foremost composers to the music festival in Aldeburgh, England. With tapes of performances this past summer by Russian Pianist Sviatoslav Richter, the Vienna Boys Choir, Tenor Peter Pears and Guitarist Julian Bream...
...Negro, he came to Europe to conduct the great symphonies and operas. He studied under von Karajan then and now the foremost conductor in Germany, who wrote that George is hochbegabt, highly gifted, very fine praise indeed. I have seen this letter and one from Richter, the pianist, saying how much he enjoyed performing with George. Once the Emperor of Ethiopia come to Berlin and admired Geogre's work and invited him to Africa to organize a symphony orchestra there. George went and has pictures to show...
Having performed with him before, Fischer-Dieskau was already acquainted with Richter's modesty. But even he was impressed when Richter insisted on turning the piano so that he could face the singer-with his back to the audience. Said Fischer-Dieskau: "I know of no other player who would have done this...
...other players could have done what Richter did with the piano music either. Fischer-Dieskau sang the 15 Magelone Romances by Brahms in one recital, 20 of Hugo Wolf's Mörike Lieder in another. Richter matched FischerDieskau's richly expressive voice in every curve of melody, every nuance of shading, every dramatic inflection, making the piano not so much an embellishment of the vocal line as a second voice that sang along with...
Good as the collaboration was, there was better to come. Last week, on the festival's closing day, Richter teamed up for an even more rewarding recital with his great Soviet contemporary, Violinist David Oistrakh. Both are natives of Odessa, but they had never played together before. In sonatas by Schubert, Brahms and Franck, they showed what a regrettable omission that had been...