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...Symphony No. 1 in D major. The piece established the neo-classical flavor of the night’s first three works with sweeping, sometimes dissonant harmonies punctuated by pizzicato and sharp percussion. Cohler presented the third and fourth movements with an especially tasteful choice of tempi that allowed his musicians to end the piece with a rapid, energetic flourish...
...taste of how Palermitans eat at home, try Altri Tempi. Though the menu is fixed at four courses, plus local after-dinner liqueurs, customers can choose from among three to four dishes for the pasta and meat courses. Try the traditional favorite pasta alla norma, with eggplants, tomatoes and salted ricotta cheese. The bill will come to less than 330 a head. Via Sammartino...
...work without break and from memory. It is surprising, though, that a singer who is used to performing lead roles in four-hour operas would have such problems, especially for a standard work like Winterreise, which he obviously knows inside-out and has even recorded in the past. The tempi tended to be on the slower side, but none of the songs dragged. Pianist Maciej Pukulski was effective in keeping the organic structure of the cycle from ever losing its momentum. He complimented van Dam with his clear, yet dark tone, which especially came through in the famous...
...like, the Porter "Night and Day") had only a coincidental connection with their tunesmiths' lives. The films were devised as cavalcades of songs and stars, and that's the interest in "Words and Music": a couple dozen R&Hart numbers, most of them well performed (though sometimes at odd tempi), many with the infrequently sung verses accompanying those renowned refrains...
...indeed his capacity for memorizing works is one of the great wonders of the conducting world. He displayed his natural and fluid podium style; conducting batonless and swaying hypnotically with the music, his sweeping horizontal gestures moved the half-hour first movement Andante comodo along. He chose his tempi with the utmost of care; the opening movement was convincingly played, its construction logically laid out, its peaks ecstatic and its valleys expansive. When one thinks of all the great conductors who have left recordings of the work—from Bruno Walter to Leonard Bernstein—and how divergent...