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...years people have asked Cellist Janos Starker to name the piece he most enjoys performing. "The one by Brahms -if only he had written it for cello," was the virtuoso's reply. He was referring, he would explain, to Opus 78, the G Major Sonata for Violin and Piano, an introspective work tinged with Nordic melancholy. "It is the most glorious Brahms," says Starker, "and it has been the dream of all cellists some day to be able to play it." No one, however, dared transcribe the violin work for cello, but early this year a transcription by Brahms...
Unlike the pair of Chopin waltzes that Pianist Byron Janis found in a French chateau in 1967, the Brahms Sonata for Cello and Piano in D Major has not languished in some dark castle. For some 60 years it had been filed and forgotten in the library of the Vienna Municipal Conservatory. Six months ago Gottfried Marcus, a pianist and musicologist, happened across the manu script. This spring the work was per formed on a Viennese television culture short. "I was in the middle of rebuild ing my house, in the midst of the mess with a TV going...
Copland: Appalachian Spring (original version, Columbia Chamber Orchestra, the composer conducting; Columbia, $5.98); Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano, Duo for Flute and Piano, Nonet for Strings (Columbia, $5.98). Partnering Violinist Isaac Stern in the Sonata (1943), or the late Elaine Shaffer in the Duo (1971), Copland proves himself a splendid interpreter of two of his most wistfully introspective chamber works...
...KOGAN, CHANG, AND MA concert was bound to be deluged. With people arriving an hour early, many had to be turned away, but some sneaked in the back. 400 enthusiasts were carried through the flamboyance and dash of Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata, op. 47 (1803), and the ethereal nuances of Schubert's Piano Trio in E Flat...
Richard Kogan, piano; Lynn Chang, violin; Yo-Yo Ma, cello. Beethoven: Kreutzer Sonata; Schubert: Trio in E-Flat. Free. Saturday, April 27, 8:30 p.m.DUNSTER LIBRARY...