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...first half of the program concentrated on music of Francis Poulenc. The Sonata for oboe and piano dates from 1963 but is firmly rooted in the French neo-classicism of the twenties and thirties. The second movement even sounds a little like Gershwin...
...CLIBURN: BEETHOVEN "LES ADIEUX" SONATA; MOZART SONATA IN C (RCA Victor). Cliburn's delivery of Beethoven's sonata of cheerful goodbyes and of Mozart's sonata of precise jollity is deft, fey and spacious, but Beethoven and Mozart have been known to reveal greater depths under more scholarly hands...
...traditional elements than the works of the other composers. In the midst of all that atonality one could actually hear thirds and complete triads, and both the second and third pieces seemed to end on notes operating as tonics. As a group, the Fantasies could be construed as a sonata-like succession of contrasting movements, with a traditionally slow and pensive second movement acting as the keystone...
...Second Sonata is an amazing piece of music. Subtitled "Concord, Mass., 1840-1860," its four movements are labelled, respectively, "Emerson," "Hawthrone." "The Alcotts," and "Thoreau." In "Hawthorne" Ives unleashes all his powers of satire as he incorporates Debussy-like ragtime, fragments of Protestant hymns, and purposely misharmonized American bombast -- "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean," for example--into an acid brew that recalls the "This Scherzo Is a Joke" movement of the Piano Trio. Mendelssohn and the Beethoven Fifth make their appearance in "The Alcotts," a merciless parody of all the cliches of nineteenth-century musical sentimentality. Of the four...
...reach of it. He is a devotee of the dip-and-sway school of playing, but he has temperament and spunk, a luminous tone and a controlled technique. Out of a contrasting assortment of half a dozen pieces, he delivered a fine, full-blooded performance of Bach's Sonata No. 4, blazed easily through the trickiest passages of Prokofiev's Sonata in D Major, and captured the dark warmth of Brahms's deceptively difficult Sonata in A Major...