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...recital included works by Bach, Scarlatti, Beethoven, Schumann, Copland, Ravel and Rachmaninoff...
Today Davidovich, 56, is recognized in her adopted country as a leading international pianist, acclaimed for her fluent, elegant interpretations of Schumann and Chopin. Unlike those Soviet emigres who left their homeland seeking greater personal freedom and artistic success, Davidovich came to the U.S. for only one reason: to be with her son, Violinist Dmitry Sitkovetsky, 30, who left the Soviet Union in 1977 to study at the Juilliard School in New York. "My son is my life," explains the quintessential Jewish mother, a widow since 1958. "I couldn't live without seeing...
...SCHUMANN: KINDERSZENEN: ARABESQUE. BRAHMS: PIANO WORKS (Nonesuch). Ivan Moravec has it all: taste, technique and the talent to combine...
...with Soloist Itzhak Perlman. The most recent Severance Hall program featured the late-Romantic composer Hans Pfitzner's Violin Concerto, a work rarely heard outside Germany. Yet Dohnanyi is also strong in more traditional fare, which he leads with crisp economic gestures. A propulsive but disciplined reading of Schumann's underrated Symphony No. 2 was one of the highlights of the orchestra's tour, and Dohnányi's authoritative interpretation of Strauss's tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra restored all the familiar work's thrilling majesty...
From Strauss to Schumann, surprise and reassurance...