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...IMMORTAL FRITZ KREISLER (RCA). The fabled Viennese-born violinist in showpieces, bonbons and a quicksilver Beethoven sonata...
...Carnegie Hall recital found him both cautious and nervous. Schubert's gentle Sonata in A Major, Opus 120, was diffident and unfocused, and while the intricate variations of Schumann's Symphonic Etudes were dutifully expounded, the piece never gathered the headlong passion that should make its concluding march a shout of triumph. Better were three movements from Olivier Messiaen's dazzling Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant Jesus, in which Feltsman temporarily relaxed his inhibitions to project the music's ferocious rhythms and clashing polytonal harmonies. Best of all were the encores. In Rachmaninoff's Prelude in G-Sharp Minor...
...that as it may, it is difficult to imagine that Brahms would have approved of the overly pensive performance of the sonata in G major, Op. 78, with which violinist Alan Gilbert '89 and pianist Ben Loeb '88-'89 opened their otherwise fine recital last Saturday night in Paine Hall...
...sonata in A major, Op. 100, is Brahms at his most intimate and endearing, and here Gilbert was in top form. Throughout the first movement, marked Allegro amabile, you could see him opening up to the audience, both musically and physically...
ASIT turned out, he was saving the best for last, as the D minor sonata, Op. 108, the most virtuosic of the bunch, was the evening's most polished performance, with an near-ideal balance between the players...