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...collaboration was, there was better to come. Last week, on the festival's closing day, Richter teamed up for an even more rewarding recital with his great Soviet contemporary, Violinist David Oistrakh. Both are natives of Odessa, but they had never played together before. In sonatas by Schubert, Brahms and Franck, they showed what a regrettable omission that had been...
...Their Schubert bounded with youthful energy and spontaneity, and their Franck was a lyrical flood. But it was the richer, darker Brahms that most fully revealed the uncanny empathy that enabled them to pass themes back and forth, coloring and developing them but always weaving them seamlessly. The audience of 2,500 was so entranced that it barely noticed when a bird fluttered in the door, looped lazily over the two musicians, then settled in the rafters...
Shure is a pianist who likes his music meaty. At this Dudley House recital he cose to assault two of the most awesome pinnacles of the piano literature, the Schubert Sonata in Bb, Op. posthumous, and the Variations on a Theme of Diabelli by Beethoven. Reaction was mixed and tended to the extremes, but there was general admiration for the sheer endurance feat of getting through all those notes...
...toward light music, and the few exceptions received the weakest performances. Brahms' intensely sorrowful "Warum ist das Licht gegeben" sounded disjointed, with the seemingly endless phrases of the first section losing momentum every measure or two; only the final chorale generated a genuine mood. The men's performance of Schubert's "Gesang der Geister uber den Wassern" showed complete insensitivity to Goethe's colorful text...
Recordings, of course, are something else. Peter has already produced Bach's Goldberg Variations, Schubert's Sonata in G and Bartok's first and third piano concertos for RCA Victor. Beginning this fall, he plans to give up concertizing altogether for at least a year so that he can devote more time to recording and study. Says his father: "Peter is developing by himself-certainly intellectually. I have no fears for his future. He has guts...