Word: scriabine
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...wonderful specimen of Germanic post-romanticism that includes a resounding men's chorus in the finale. Following this bent, Ogdon has become one of the exponents of the current romantic revival. That revival has helped bring forth a small anthology of minor works by major composers (Liszt, Scriabin), as well as some ingratiating works by minor composers (Charles-Henry Valentin Alkan, Max Reger). Ogdon, currently engaged in a six-week tour of the U.S. and Canada, is pleasantly matter-of-fact about this special musical taste: "I've always been interested in out-of-the-way composers, although...
...company of virtuoso pianist-composers. At the close of the 19th and in the early 20th century, the musical type culminated in a series of men who combined powerful and poetic performing styles with highly idiosyncratic ways of writing for the piano-Rachmaninoff as well as Liszt, Busoni and Scriabin. Closer to the present time, the line seems to have ended with Prokofiev and Bartók. All of them, for better or worse, were musicians of originality and vision who made concertgoing fresh and exciting. Though Ogdon has still to make it as a composer, there is no doubt...
...punishing ascendency of the magnificent nineteenth century figures: Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Metternich, Bismarck, Darwin. Music was caught in a vortex of gigantic, lavish attempts at the final romantic masterpiece. Mahler's Eighth Symphony, Richard Strauss's Symphonia Domestica and Alpine Symphony, Schoenberg's Pelleas and Melisande and Gurre-Lieder, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy were all part of an increasingly grotesque effort to revitalize the nineteenth century musical syntax. Munificently colored cathedrals were raised upon the collapsing sands of lurid fin-de-siecle romanticism. Self-paralysis, excruciating self-examination, and creative resumption along new paths followed this cataract...
VLADIMIR HOROWITZ AT CARNEGIE HALL (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). The first television concert by the renowned piano virtuoso includes works by Chopin, Schumann, Scarlatti and Scriabin...
...last week, he plays again. His Scriabin is more difficult and more triumphant, his Chopin alternately stormy and suave; it is more introspective than Rubinstein's, probes for a cerebral content that surprises and electrifies. His eyes are glued to the keyboard, his fingers carefully searching out each note as if they are switches that illuminate sound. But the greatest success is not in the relationship of Horowitz to his audience or Horowitz to his critics, but of Horowitz to Horowitz. He signs a five-year contract with Columbia Records. On May 8 he will play again before...