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...Ferruccio Busoni's Second Sonata was the only really dull part of an otherwise excellent concert. The work opens and ends with a harmonically adventurous succession of chords, but everything in between, even when played beautifully (as it was), lacks in substance and fails to create a strong impression. I admire Schulte for his programming of obscure works, but perhaps he can concentrate his efforts on more deserving pieces...
...Ferruccio Parri (Action Party...
MOZART: Don Giovanni. Samuel Ramey, Don Giovanni; Ferruccio Furlanetto, Leporello; Anna Tomowa-Sintow, Donna Anna; Agnes Baltsa, Donna Elvira; Kathleen Battle, Zerlina; Herbert von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic (Deutsche Grammophon). Salzburg Recital. Soprano Kathleen Battle, Pianist James Levine...
Joaquim Pineiro Da Silva, 27, a Portuguese cabin steward, learned of the slaying after one of the terrorists entered the ship's main lounge and motioned to him and Ferruccio Alberti, the cruise hairdresser. The two men were led to the upper deck, where they found Klinghoffer's body lying facedown in a pool of blood beside his overturned wheelchair. The terrorist gestured that they were to toss both the body and the wheelchair overboard. After hearing the body splash in the waters below, neither man looked over the rail. "I wanted to break into tears, but was unable...
...Instead, after sharing first prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy in Moscow's 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, he became an evangelist for music that few other major pianists would touch. One of his best LP albums is devoted entirely to some of the piano music of Carl Nielsen (RCA), another to Ferruccio Busoni's hour-long piano concerto (Angel), a woolly and wonderful specimen of Germanic post-romanticism that includes a resounding men's chorus in the finale. Following this bent, Ogdon has become one of the exponents of the current romantic revival. That revival has helped bring forth...