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Three symphonies-- K.P.E. Bach's Symphony No. 3, Schubert's Unfinished Symphony, and Dvorak's Symphony No. 7 ("No. 2")--and a newly-commissioned work, Kacinskas's Symphonie Fantasy No. 2, will make up the program, which start at 8:30 p.m. in Sanders Theatre...
...attracts front-rank musicians who are hand-picked by Yehudi. get no fee. In the 14th century Protestant Church of Saanen. the wealthy chalet set will this year hear Yehudi play with the Zurich Chamber Music Orchestra and his sister Hepzibah in a series devoted to works of Schubert, Debussy, Beethoven, Bach, Haydn and Mozart...
...main program was devoted to four Beethoven sonatas, to which Richter added works by Schubert, Schumann and Chopin as encores. Swaying, gyrating, twisting his face into gargoyle grimaces, Richter at times lowered his jutting jaw until it almost touched the keys, at other times threw his head back in a kind of trancelike reverie. His bravura passages had a grandeur with no hint of pounding, his pianissimos a feather lightness, and his crescendos or decrescendos were so tightly controlled that they seemed to swell and diminish like the modulations of a well-trained voice...
...Pianist Richter, he insisted that it had not been one of his best nights. At home, he is less known for his Beethoven than for his Liszt and Schubert. Unlike most Soviet artists, he is also an ardent champion of moderns. He generally insists on playing only one composer at each concert, explains: "Chopin after Beethoven is like watercolors after oil painting.'' At 46, Richter still gives some 120 concerts a season in Russia, labors at the keyboard for as long as ten hours at a stretch, and has been known to sit down for a three-hour...
...other end of the scale, the Vienna Philharmonic performed Anton Bruckner's sprawling (80 minutes) Eighth Symphony, a superromantic exercise whose occasional eloquence and melodic beauty is drowned in the wearisome repetition of meaningless climaxes. The orchestra brightened things again with a fine, majestic performance of Schubert's Symphony No. 8 (The Unfinished) and a round of selections from various Strausses, including a Fledermaus overture that seemed to transform Carnegie Hall into a crystal-hung ballroom...