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Beginning with a classic jazz piece by Dave Brubeck called “Blue Rondo a la Turk,” in which O’Malley played piano and Ramos played guitar to the accompaniment of a four-piece jazz band...
...second movement ländler was appropriately rustic, while the rondo-burlesque, taken at an exciting but never hurried tempo, culminated in an electrifying outburst at its conclusion. In between the faster fugato sections were heavenly trumpet solos. While the third movement showcased the brass, the strings came through in the last movement, sustaining the intensity of the long phrases until the very end. Bernstein described the final page of the symphony as “the closest we have ever come, in any work of art, to experiencing the very act of dying. The slowness of this page...
...concert ended with a series of transcriptions by Heifetz of some famous pieces, the highlights being the sprightly and light-hearted (yet extremely technical) "Rondo in E-flat Major" by Hummel, the moving spiritual "Deep River," and the audience's favourite, "It Ain't Necessarily So" from Gershwin's Porgy and Bess...
...enormous innate appeal, but certainly does not play itself and Perahia made it dazzling. Perahia imparted to the main theme of the allegretto middle movement the proper sense of graceful ghostliness, and played the living daylights out of the trio, but the real jawdropper here was the presto rondo finale. In an interview with WHRB, Perahia revealed that, studying under Miecyslaw Horszowski, he practiced his Leschetisky method like a good little boy. Nowhere was it more obvious than in these astonishingly clean, carefully controlled, and virtually unpedalled runs...
...latest from a young man who is without question Russia's most exciting pianist, this recital disc pairs two romantic masterpieces, the Bach-Busoni Chaconne and Schumann's Kreisleriana, plus a pair of shorter pieces by Beethoven (Rondo for Piano in G Major is one). These spectacular performances--big-boned and expansive, yet piercingly direct whenever they need to be--rank among the very best on record. Not since Vladimir Horowitz was in his absolute prime have we been privy to classical piano playing quite as bold, quite as ambitious as this...