Word: schumann
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PAINE HALL. Thursday, Feb. 7. 4:15 p.m. Free. Charles Rosen, Phi Beta Kappa scholar and pianist extraordinaire, will lecture on "Romantic Theories of Expression and Schumann...
...single 78 r.p.m. record. There are the myriad piano transcriptions that Rachmaninoff wrote for recital encores, notably the Prelude from Bach's Violin Partita in E and the Scherzo from Men delssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream. There is the finest recording ever made of Schumann's Carnaval, astonishingly warm and realistic in sound quality despite its 1929 vintage. Rachmaninoff the conductor is also represented, leading the Philadelphia in effective readings of his soulful Third Symphony (1939) and brooding Isle of the Dead...
...SCHUMANN: FANTASIESTÜCKE, OP. 12; DAVIDSBÜNDLERTÄNZE, OP. 6 (Columbia). A notable recording debut by a lyric virtuoso of the piano, Murray Perahia...
...Schumann: Fantasiestücke, Op. 12; Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 (Murray Perahia, pianist; Columbia; $5.98). Schumann's piano music-a blend of heroic stride, demonic fantasy and impish humor-requires the age-spanning wisdom and maturity of a Richter or Rubinstein; rarely are the upstart young up to it. In this brilliant recording debut, Bronx-born Murray Perahia, 26, who last year became the first American to win Britain's Leeds International Competition, proves himself to be the rare exception to that rule. Indeed, Perahia may well take a place as the most eloquent lyric...
...emerged as the darling of worldwide concert audiences while still in her early 20s. Another was the graceful and eloquently soulful way she played her cumbersome instrument. Her tone had an auburn glow, her phrasing a masculine power, and her programming showed an equal devotion to old favorites (the Schumann and Saint-Saëns concertos) and interesting esoterica (the Delius concerto). She quickly took a place among the two or three finest cellists in the world...