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CHOPIN: THE NOCTURNES (RCA Victor; 2 LPs). German Poet Heinrich Heine once wrote about Chopin that his "fame is aristocratic, it is perfumed with the approval of good society, it is as distinguished as his person." The same might be said of Artur Rubinstein, Chopin's fellow Pole. Taking the long-lined melodies of the 19 night pieces, Rubinstein floats them on their shifting chromatic undercurrents in a most elegant and assured manner, never falling into sentimentality...
...week when most of the specials, for a change, deserved the title of special. CBS led the parade with S. Hurok Presents-Part II, and the indefatigable impresario produced a musical program of a quality that television has not achieved in years. Pianist Artur Rubinstein performed Beethoven's Concerto in G Major, Violinist David Oistrakh played Bach's Concerto in A Minor, and the Bolshoi Ballet danced a segment of Act II of Giselle. Throughout the 90-minute show, both music and ballet were presented on their own terms-without the usual TV camera tricks and, more important...
...musical segments, CBS Director William Graham focused almost exclusively on Oistrakh and Rubinstein, dollying and zooming around them with gentle art, highlighting the dexterity of their finger work and the rapt expressions of two of the craggiest and most variable countenances in all the performing arts. In the Bolshoi segment, he gave the home viewer the same kind of steady, pictorial flow that is available from a good theater seat...
...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Pianist Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven, Violinist David Oistrakh performing Bach, and the Bolshoi Ballet in an excerpt from Giselle...
...four U.S. cities, the album has now sold 15,000 copies. This week Mozart's "new" hit climbed to No. 21 on Billboard's chart of bestselling classical records. And the surge is spreading to other versions: RCA's five-year-old issue, played by Artur Rubinstein, is selling four times faster since Elvira arrived...