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Wild's still omnipotent fingers transform the instrument into a source of marvels. He can electrify audiences with an impossibly demonic performance of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz, move them with an achingly tender account of a Sonetto del Petrarca by the composer or do both with the Manichean Sonata in B Minor...
...Pilgrimage), ought to stand by itself for years. It is a wondrously assorted anthology of piano pieces, many of which were conceived during four years of wandering through Switzerland and Italy. From the revolutionary "trumpet calls" of the opening Chapelle de Guillaume Tell to the exquisite mysteries of the Sonetto 104 del Petrarca, Berman revels in some of the most poetic landscapes known to the piano...
...benefit of those who are interested, I repeat here Rachmaninoff's Sunday afternoon program (which, may I add, is a typical Rachmaninoff program in its popular glitter and lack of musicianly interest): Organ Prelude and Fugue, Bach; a Mendelssohn Rondo; a Chopin Nocturne and two Mazurkas; the Sonetto del Petraca and the Rhapsody No. 11 of Liszt, and Beethoven's Sonata Apparrionata, as well as several compositions of Rachmaninoff...
...program is as follows: 1. Fair Harvard. 2. Overture, "The Calif of Bagdad" Boieldien 3. Ballet Egyptien Luigini 4. I. Allegro non troppo. II. Allegretto. III. Andante sostenuto. IV. Andante espressivo. Allegro. 4. Soli for Pianoforte. a. Melody in E Rachmaninoff b. Impromptu in F-sharp Major Chopin c. Sonetto 123 del Petrarca Liszt d. Jardins sous la Pluie Debussy Mr. F. W. Ramseyer '26. 5. Romanza Dvorak 6. Polka Dvorak 7. Orientale Cui Solo Cello--Mr. E. T. Payson '26. 8. Cortege from the "Queen of Sheba" Gounod
...Brahms, (a) Intermezzo in E flat minor, and (b) Capriccio in B minor; Chopin, (a) Nocturne in C minor, (b) Berceuse, and (c) Polonaise in A flat; Ganz, (a) "In May" (Op. 23), and (b) Etude-Caprice (Op. 14); Blanchet, Serenade (Op. 15); Liszt, (a) Sonetto dipetrarca in E. and (b) Rakoezy March...
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