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SCHUMANN: CARNAVAL; PAPILLONS; TOCCATA (Sony Classical). Cecile Licad goes to the fair, tackling Schumann's greatest piano work, Carnaval, and finding goodies on almost every page. The Toccata also surges and sparkles. Only the tricky Papillons disappoints; she should float like a butterfly, but she stings like...
...twelve-note row containing all the musical intervals, but still has room for such disparate elements as Gregorian chant, Bach chorales and, during a dance number, an anachronistic rock band. Each of the scenes in the opera's four acts is organized according to a musical genre: chaconne, toccata, ricercar-another explicit resemblance to Wozzeck...
Lastly, Moye pays tribute to our century's greatest cellist by filling out the disk with three short works associated with Casals: the Siloti transcription of the second movement from Bach's organ Toccata, Adagio and Fugue, and Casals' own arrangement of the ever-lovely Faure song "Apres un reve," both of which demonstrate Moye's marvelous legato bowing; and the dashing encore piece Requiebros that was written for and dedicated to Casals by his one-time student Gasparo Cassado...
Finally, the last concert of the Busch-Reisinger Thursday Noon Recital Series for the spring semester takes place on Thursday, June 1. If you're still around, you can listen to organist James Higbe play Bach's Concerto in Cmajor, Toccata and Fugue in d minor ("Dorian") and other works. Call 495-2317 for more info. And have a good summer...
...make them. "Music appeals to me for what can be done with it," Leopold Stokowski once remarked. By that he meant that he knew better than Beethoven or Brahms how instruments should sound, and that Johann Sebastian Bach surely would have loved his lush orchestral transcriptions of the Toccata and Fugue in D minor. For such arrogance-and for the skill with which he argued his claims-Stokowski earned the adulation of audiences, the grudging admiration of most critics, the constant hostility of musical purists...