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...skill of famed British Accompanist Gerald Moore: He is aware that "there are 20,000 ways of performing one piece," and his volumes and tempi are tailored like a Savile Row suit to the style of the soloist. See Music, Unashamed Accompanists...
...Moore's superb performances bear him out. He has a remarkable ability to vary rhythms and colors in order to illuminate the shifting moods of a singer's text. Moreover, he is aware that "there are 20,000 ways of performing one piece." and his volumes and tempi are tailored like a Savile Row suit to the style and capacity of the soloist. Most important, he is a deft reader of what France's Irene Aitoff calls the "state of soul" of his partners-the crosscurrents that may warp a performance from its appointed course...
...more for stereo) the frustrated conductor gets some bandshell marshmallows-Richard Rodgers' Victory at Sea, Khachaturian's Sabre Dance, Fantasia on "Greensleeves"-preconducted for him by Arthur Fiedler, Morton Gould, Robert Russell Bennett. (Any armchair connoisseur of the Viennese repertory will find Conductor Fiedler's tempi in the Fledermaus waltzes aggravatingly slow, but Gould's version of Mexican Hat Dance is so inspiring that it may result in dislocated shoulders...
VistaVision. To some listeners, Scherchen's musical concepts seem to have an oppressively Teutonic solemnity, partially because he sometimes favors slow tempi. But in large works, such as Berlioz' Requiem Mass, he succeeds in conveying a stunning sense of power. His recent recording (for Westminster) of the Requiem has a VistaVisioned breadth that probably no other conductor could bring to it. Yet Scherchen also has remarkable ability to draw forth individual strands, delineating them in unforgettable detail...
...virtuoso, but Sister Anthony, before taking the veil, played for three seasons in the Los Angeles Philharmonic, one year in the 20th Century-Fox studio orchestra, and Sister Mark holds a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music. Few trios now performing can surpass their exquisitely unified ensemble playing. Tempi they keep brisk and tense. During the recording session, one of the three sisters said crisply: "Let's take it faster. We can't sound like three old women." They...