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...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...
...best pianists in the University and a gifted composer. Joe Conte has played Rosenbloom's compositions before, so their joint recital at Holmes on Sunday should present the contemporary pieces in the best possible light. The remainder of the program is worth hearing, too: Mozart, Schumann, and Brahms...
HOLMES HALL LIVING ROOM. Joseph R. Conte, violin; and Paul Rosenbloom, piano. Chamber music of Mozart, Schumann, Rosenbloom, and Brahms. Free. Sunday, November...
...would like to find out when Steinway & Sons (by and large the best pianomakers in the world) will stop making concert grands geared exclusively for the Tchaikovsky. Rachmaninoff, Liszt, Prokofiev type of works and start making again lovely, mellow-sounding instruments suited to playing Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Schumann...