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...they watched Pianist Alexis Weissenberg play Chopin with the New York Philharmonic, the audience at Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week could eas ily have felt a twinge of memory. Weissenberg bore a strong resemblance to a younger pianist named Sigi Weissenberg, who had made his U.S. debut playing Chopin with the New York Philharmonic 20 years earlier. Alexis even had some of Sigi's pianistic traits-triphammer virtuosity, brilliant tone, a briskly commanding approach to a score-but they were tempered with subtler shading and a surer sense of structure...
...Victor); CHOPIN PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 IN E MINOR, PIANO CONCERTO NO. 2 IN F MINOR, and SMALLER WORKS FOR PIANO AND ORCHESTRA (Angel, 3 LPs). After returning to the U.S. last year from a decade-long self-imposed exile, Weissenberg, now 39, changed his first name from Sigi to Alexis. He obviously had some new musical ideas on his mind too. In the Rachmaninoff, the Bulgarian-born pianist displays a Horowitz-like technique, a poet's heart and vast reserves of power; he throws up wave upon wave of volume without ever losing the shimmering roundness...
Romantic Wallowing. "Sigi" Jung (nicknamed from the Schwyzerdütsch pronunciation of his initials), only son of a Reformed Church pastor, had a lonely, bookish boyhood in Basel. His father began teaching him Latin at six. In adolescence he wallowed in the German romantics. He read Greek and Sanskrit and steeped himself in philosophy. He thought of becoming an archaeologist. To please his father he took up medicine-and began digging into the minds of patients...
...Grace." Old Grace is his young fiancee. The marquis looks Grace up-and down. "We will marry immediately," he announces. They marry. Four days later the marquis heads back to the wars, and poor Grace (Deborah Kerr) has nothing to do but stitch rugs and eat for two (Sigi is born at the height of the blitz). Nine years later she is still stitching rugs and, as her father (Ronald Squire) puts it, "getting a bit weedy." The Marquis of Valhubert has been 1) captured by the Germans, 2) interned by the Russians, 3) ordered to the Sahara, 4) transferred...
Cocaine & Catharsis. Martha put up with all this because she knew that Sigi was madly in love with her, and that he was one of those men who cannot express their love until they have first released a spate of anger and mistrust. She also knew that he was an ambitious man fighting desperately against poverty and putting aside every penny to be able to marry her. His high-strung state at this time is shown by a clinical anecdote. Expecting a visit from Martha, Freud found that when he laid his stethoscope on a patient's heart...