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Schumann: Fantaslestücke (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.) Rubinstein can be hard! to beat when he settles down to it; here, playing one of Schumann's most poetic pieces with great simplicity and beauty of tone, he is incomparable. Recording: excellent...
...important to record buyers, Victor will dip into its library and reissue on LP such of its old masters as "can be rerecorded without loss of quality and tonal fidelity." That will include most of the great records made in the last decade by Arturo Toscanini, Serge Koussevitzky, Artur Rubinstein, Jascha Heifetz, Vladimir Horowitz, Marian Anderson, John Charles Thomas, many another star in a catalogue of classical music without parallel in the record industry...
...York Times Book Review, Pianist Artur Rubinstein wrote a tart review of French Novelist Andre Gide's Notes on Chopin. Sample Rubinstein pan: "... a long and pretentious music lesson, apparently written by a frustrated and embittered amateur pianist who has tried in vain to dominate the difficult keyboard for the last sixty years...
...Manhattan, thousands packed the Metropolitan Opera House to hear his foremost living interpreter and Polish compatriot, Artur Rubinstein, play Chopin's incomparable mazurkas, polonaises, preludes, nocturnes and waltzes in a commemorative concert. In Paris, Pianist Alexander Brailowsky prepared for a similar recital at the Sorbonne. In London, BBC had Pianist Claudio Arrau in an all-Chopin program and Albert Hall had Robert Casadesus. In Chopin's native Warsaw, the great Chopin international piano competition was just winding up, and a new complete edition of Chopin's works, edited by Ignace Paderewski before his death, was coming...
Chopin: Concerto No. 1 In E Minor (Alexander Brailowsky, piano, with the RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Artur Rubinstein's magnificent performance (also for Victor) is a mark for most pianists to shoot at; Brailowsky's softer and sometimes soggy version just misses. Recording: excellent...