Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angel re-recording of Liszt's sonata in B minor (COLH 72), carried out by the unbelievably agile fingers and arms of Vladimir Horowitz, has filled a huge hole in the record catalogue. The release is part of Angel's "Great recordings of the Century" series, and is taken from a 78 rpm recorded in 1932, when Horowitz was at his best. Though the stereo addict will wince at an occasional impurity in sound, Horowitz's performance is superb. The Angel version far surpasses the few recordings of Liszt's sonata available earlier...
...program which Adams House presented on Wednesday night seemed at the start totally miscellaneous. The Beethoven Violin Sonata, Op.96, opened it, the Schoenberg String Trio, Op. 45 followed, and the second half plunged into the electronic music of Cage, Mache and Schaeffer. But all the pieces closely complemented each other, for the modern works were all intent upon evoking a sense of enigmatic direction, of thoughtful uncertainty, and the Beethoven at least approached them by using an unusual formal scheme. Listening to all this raised the important question of what should determine taste within so free a style...
...sentimental question deserves a sentimental answer, but was it really necessary to play both the Moonlight Sonata and Here Comes the Bride in the same movie? At 29, Bergman obviously thought so. But the film has flair as well as faults...
Richter was so exhausted for his final concert that he talked of canceling out, then appeared to play a brutal program of Hindemith's First Sonata, five Shostakovich preludes and fugues, Prokofiev's Sixth Sonata and, for encores, a bouquet of Prokofiev Visions Fugitives. Had his playing improved? Though the atmosphere that surrounded him could not help but candy the reviews, Paris could only say: "Such taste, such wonderful music, such flair...
...well. Despite his virtuoso technique. Anievas' playing lacked authority and. too often, the ability to express either the sweep of the music or its depth. But on occasion, as in Brahms's Variations on a Theme by Paganini and the singing passages of Sessions' First Sonata, he shed his tall, dark detachment and dug down to bring up the music that had been expected...