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...package are the Schoenberg piano works, which Gould plays with the sense of divine order and mystery that Gieseking used to bring to Debussy; an excellent stereo rechanneling of the album that launched Gould's recording career 13 years ago, the Goldberg Variations ("In those days, my tempi were souped up and rather breakneck"); and a conversation LP in which he admits that his nine years as a recitalist were "rather unpleasant, rather traumatic." In the time since, Gould says that he has had "four of the best years of my life." It hasn't been...
...program was best characterized by Indjic's performance of the Etudes. These are the exercises that teach the skills of which virtuosity is made. Indjic did his exercises remarkably well. Despite his choice of very quick tempi, he tossed off the flying octaves, thirds, and arpeggios with impeccable clarity and accuracy. Only in Op. 10, no. 4, did the racing notes melt into an indistinguishable blur. In every case he clearly solved the problem of extracting the melodic line from a morass of notes and floating it above the cleanly formed accompaniment. His facility was most clearly demonstrated...
Miss Horne's greatest triumph lay in overcoming her own substantial bulk. In the first act, largely because of Maestro Lewis' absurdly fast tempi in the Habanera and Seguidilla, her Carmen seemed only a winsome, fat slut, but the virtuosity of her singing and acting for the rest of the opera made it easy to believe every man in sight found her irresistible. Her sensuous voice moved with perfect flexibility from the dark richness of a Leontyne Price to the brilliance of a Birgit Nilsson. The weight of her low register in the Tarot Scene was miraculous, and the delicacy...
Kirchner's tempi were often brisk and never slovenly. He used a baton when precision was called for, conducting only with his hands in the sections where he wanted more flexibility...
Lack of orchestral blend, sluggish tempi, square, measure-bound phrasing, and the acoustical recalcitrance of Sanders Theatre all prevented the Symphony's ever getting off the ground. And one should not be left unenthralled by Brahms...