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...years people have asked Cellist Janos Starker to name the piece he most enjoys performing. "The one by Brahms -if only he had written it for cello," was the virtuoso's reply. He was referring, he would explain, to Opus 78, the G Major Sonata for Violin and Piano, an introspective work tinged with Nordic melancholy. "It is the most glorious Brahms," says Starker, "and it has been the dream of all cellists some day to be able to play it." No one, however, dared transcribe the violin work for cello, but early this year a transcription by Brahms...
...manu script. This spring the work was per formed on a Viennese television culture short. "I was in the middle of rebuild ing my house, in the midst of the mess with a TV going in the corner, and I happened to hear a cellist playing the Brahms violin sonata," recalls Buchbinder, 27. Elated, the young Austrian pianist contacted Marcus and obtained a photostatic copy of the score. Three weeks ago he sent it to Starker, and arrangements with Ravinia were made...
...mellow color and timbre. The composer also made some 200 alterations, mostly minor, in the score which he probably recast for his friend, the eminent 19th century cellist Robert Hausmann. At the end of the second movement Brahms added a section for the cello and switched a violin part to the piano. In the final movement he reversed the piano and string parts, al lowing the cello to lead...
Earlier in this century, composers rarely featured the cello, considering it a lowly second cousin to the violin. Artists like Pablo Casals, Gregor Piatigorsky, Mstislav Rostropovich and Starker revealed the silken tonal beauty of the instrument. Still, the repertory remains narrow. Starker speculates that this Brahms sonata, written in the year of the composer's death (1897), may have been his last work. In any event, his publisher died soon after. With the decline of the firm, copies of the Brahms sonata may have been overlooked until at last the so nata disappeared from view...
...Karl's transformation are 18 historical sketches covering more than 100 years of European history. Moorcock shows Karl as an orphan who sees his mother murdered in the Paris Commune of 1871. From a London sweatshop in 1906 he is drawn into revolutionary violence. Later he plays the violin in Auschwitz. The book is by turns puzzling, funny and shocking. By 1990, with Karl sitting in the ruins of London, Moorcock has brilliantly demonstrated his point-that man's imagination has always driven him deep Into inhumanity...