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...eight decades, Wunderkinder have come and gone since Arthur Ru binstein was recognized as a prodigy by the eminent violinist Joseph Joachim. All of them, no doubt, have had experience as tender as Rubinstein...
...child prodigy at ten has talent at 15 and is mediocre at 20." Given parental idiosyncrasies, the denial of childish games, the pressures of concert life, it is a won der any of them survive at all. Yet they do. Beethoven, Mozart and Mendelssohn made it and, since Rubinstein's emergence, so have Violinist Yehudi Menuhin, Conductor Lorin Maazel and Pianist Lorin Hollander, among others. Three of the latest entrants in the prodigy sweepstakes...
Today, at age six, Leandro is a pianistic sensation who has been applauded wildly from London to Lugano. Just as Rubinstein was taken to Joachim, so young Aconcha was taken to the venerable Rubinstein in 1970 at his vacation villa in Marbella, Spain. "Instead of hanging about the piano like a little monkey," chuckled Rubinstein shortly thereafter, "he ran about the house and hurtled through the garden." When the boy finally sat down to play, "not one note was missing. I was four when I started to play and he was three, but even at the age of eight...
...late supper: buxom Emmy Destinn, one of the greatest operatic dramatic sopranos of the time (1907), and the slender young Polish pianist and boulevardier Arthur Rubinstein. Rubinstein gallantly began to discuss music...
Great Pianists of the Century Play Chopin (Cortot, Rubinstein, Gieseking, Arrau, Horowitz, Cherkassky, Malcuzynski, Lipatti, Anda, Seraphim; $2.98). Nine artists are represented in this Chopin collection assembled from monophonic recordings made between 1933 and 1959. The sound is not equal to contemporary standards, but it in no way obscures the distinctive style of each artist. Collectors will want this one. 25th Anniversary Season: Graffman Plays...