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Schubert: Sonata In C Minor (Webster Aitken, piano; Elaine Music Shop, 2 sides LP). Since 68-year-old Artur Schnabel retired from touring, concert audiences seldom get to hear any of the three splendid "Grand Sonatas" Schubert composed in the last year of his life (1828); most other pianists consider them too long and repetitious. This one, the first, does not have so much spontaneous melody as the other two, but Schubert lovers will not want to miss it in Aitken's strong, clean performance. Recording: excellent...
Sonata No. 4, Op. 102 No. 1 (Artur Schnabel, pianist; Pierre Fournier, cellist; Victor, 4 sides 45 r.p.m.). This sober and somber sonata anticipates-but ranks with-the last great quartets. Schnabel's playing, as always, has wisdom and warmth; French Cellist Fournier can not quite match the playing of Pablo Casals in an earlier record. Performance and recording: excellent...
...played Liszt on the piano at 22 months, written a symphony at eight, received his A.B. from Yale at 14 to become New Haven's youngest grad ever (TIME, Oct. 29, 1945). Since then he had spent three years in earnest study with great Pianist Artur Schnabel. Now, at 18, Kenneth wanted to be judged, he said, "solely by the quality of my music...
...sick or die in my movies") Pasternak is an expert at turning out box-office musicals (Three Daring Daughters, In the Good Old Summertime). His favorite theme is the American dream that the tot on the living-room floor may one day turn out to be another Schnabel or Flagstad. In this case, the American living room is the usual Pasternak plush job, heavily furnished with grand pianos, helpful celebrities and enthusiastic prodigies...
...Schnabel has toured the United States and Europe for the past few years, giving concerts of the works of Beethoven, Brahms, and Mozart, in particular...