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...Minor Piano Concerto when all of a sudden a tiny jagged piece of wood jabbed my finger where the B-flat had been a second before. A week later at the University of Maryland, a bass A-flat flew off as I was finishing a Chopin sonata - they glued it back with hot epoxy during the break." Both instruments were brand new, one a Steinway, the other a Baldwin - the two makes whose pianos are used at 99% of all U.S. concerts...
Schubert: Piano Sonata in A. Op. Posth. (Alfred Brendel; Philips, $6.98). A steadfastly rich, varied piece of music, less rambling than the dour ¶minor and the ethereal-and best-known-B Flat, all of which Schubert wrote in the last months of his life. Surprisingly from the suave, precise Brendel, the performance could now and then use a more expressive turn of phrase; but it is still the performance to have, at least until somebody gets around to reissuing the nonpareil Schnabel version...
HOLMES HALL. Philip Kuttner, pianist, in recital. Schumann: Fantasy; Schubert: Sonata in D Major. Thurs...
...Trumpet (Gerard Schwarz, trumpet, Ursula Oppens, piano, play Peter Maxwell Davies' Sonata for Trumpet and Piano, Lucia Dlugozewski's Space Is a Diamond, and William Hellerman's Passages 13-The Fire, Nonesuch; $2.98). All too often avant-garde music looms as a forbidding wilderness of inhospitable sounds. Not this album of contemporary trumpet music performed by versatile Trumpeter Schwarz. The Sonata by Davies, who also composed the opera Taverner, is sequential but melodic. Composer Dlugozewski, who studied with Varese, employs a variety of mutes and experimental techniques without sacrificing emotional content. Composer Hellerman, a Columbia University faculty...
...FINE ARTS BLDG. 855 Comm. Ave. Alfred Schneider, violin. Elgar, Sonata Opus 82. Schubert Rondo Brilliante. Enesco Sonata...