Word: scriabine
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Vivan Taylor, pianist, in recital. Works of Schoenberg, Ives, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Liszt. Free. Saturday, April...
...important, no pianistcomposer had ever been as thoroughly recorded at so many key points in his life. From 1919, shortly after he fled Russia, until 1942, a year before his death in Beverly Hills, Calif., at 69, Rachmaninoff was a steady visitor to the recording studios. Beethoven, Chopin, Scriabin, Bach, Mozart, Handel, Liszt and, of course, Rachmaninoff-the music of these and other composers he committed to disc. Unfortunately, throughout most of the ensuing years, collectors have been denied a comprehensive accounting of this legacy; as soon as one new Rachmaninoff album was issued, another seemed to be deleted from...
...Beethoven sonata at 7:50 p.m. By 8:20 he had flung himself into one of the fiercest challenges in the entire piano literature: both books of Brahms' Variations on a Theme by Paganini. He continued with Chopin's powerful Sonata in B Minor, another sonata by Scriabin, a wrist-cracking Etude for the Left Hand by Blumenfeld, and finally Stravinsky's Three Scenes from Petrouchka, a piece that bristles with so many notes that much of it is written on three and even four lines instead of the usual two. He wrapped up the evening with...
...broke into recording in a characteristically lavish way. Vox Records wanted to record what seemed like the whole of the romantic piano literature and asked Ponti to be the performer. Since then he has made 25 LPs, including the complete piano music of Tchaikovsky, and is now working on Scriabin and Rachmaninoff. Largely as a result of this extensive background, he now has enough solo pieces in his head to turn out a six-hour nonstop recital. In addition, he can play any of 50 concertos at the drop of a hat. Or a bowling ball...
Mature Genius. Based on two sensuous scores by Scriabin, Poème was created for Fonteyn by Cranko, an admirer of hers since their days together at Britain's Royal Ballet. There is something basically appealing about a tribute from one artist to another, and the principal role would seem to be tailor-made for the mature genius of Dame Margot, now 52. She plays a turn-of-the-century operatic diva who meets and dazzles a younger man (Egon Madsen) at a cocktail party. Then, in a swirling dream sequence, she recalls the four great loves...