Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first recordings of Beethoven's Pathetique Sonata, three Debussy Preludes, Chopin's Scherzo No. 1 and two Etudes (Columbia), Horowitz plays with heart on sleeve, spinning out a range of emotion beyond his earlier reach. His rapport with Chopin and Debussy is especially strong, but he plays Beethoven with glee and understanding...
LEON FLEISHER (Epic) and SVIATOSLAV RICHTER (Angel) have both recorded Schubert's Wanderer Fantasia and Sonata in A Major, and the results are surprisingly equal. The music is right down Richter's alley, but Fleisher approaches it with ease and style and seems almost the peer of Russia's master pianist...
...profundo--a rugged TV ad for "the Man's cigarette." Other skits are extended and often scathing parodies like the first act closer, a merciless debunking of Britain's heroic World War II effort Listening to Dame Myra Hess (a scraggly gray wig accomplishes this transformation) play the moonlight sonata in those courageous British Museum Concerts, a veddy upper matron advises her son, "This music was written by a German, deah. That's something you'll have to work out for yourself." Funny thing, war. The review also gets its licks at the Royal Family, the English way of death...
...chips who has been plopped into the show's continuity to provide flavorful exterior background to the otherwise indoor London setting of Terence Rattigan's story about an American girl and a Carpathian prince. With a big straw hat over her blonde hair, her clothing a rag sonata of browns and purples, her feet, encased in high button shoes, kicking up to show legs that would flatter a Tottenham Court soccer player, she belts out a medley of Noel Coward cockney songs-London Is a Little Bit of All Right, Saturday Night at the Rose and Crown-that...
...cover. One of the keys is missing on the old grand piano. King likes to play the piano, although, as his wife says, "he starts off the Moonlight Sonata as if you're really going to hear something, but he fades...