Word: keyboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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NIELSEN: PIANO MUSIC (RCA Victor). Keyboard music was incidental to Nielsen's career, but this lustrous release echoes most of his compositions at their very best. British Pianist John Ogdon is ideally suited to his assignment. His calm, intelligent performance gives coherence to Nielsen's sometimes aggressive brilliance, and in quiet, crystalline passages, such as the finale of Chacone, he achieves a purity of tone reminiscent of the late Walter Gieseking...
MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 13 AND 17 (Columbia). French Pianist Philippe Entremont, 34, makes his recording debut as conductor in addition to playing the piano solos. There is plenty of precedent for the dual role: Bach at the keyboard, Mozart at the violin, playing and leading simultaneously. Entremont the conductor picked Mozart "because of the relatively small forces involved and the relatively simple rhythms," but it is Entremont the pianist who makes this a masterly record. Set off by the responsive but docile Collegium Musicum of Paris, his special gifts of musical veracity and taste enhance familiar music and make...
Actually, the efforts of these people to "swing" is doomed to failure because they have continued to use the modern keyboard fingering. As a result, they can produce only the same da da da da rigidity that has led 90% of the public to detest Bach. The real baroque fingering style of Bach was reputed to sound like a conversation. Anyone can restore the "speaking-swinging" style to Bach by singing it with the old flute tonguing: did'll did'll, or even the scat syllables: da ba da ba of the Swingle Singers...
...serial technique stand in the way of red-blooded musical drama. His concerto is full of mellow drama as well-racing scales, rushing rhythms and suspenseful pauses, after which, sometimes, nothing much follows. Nevertheless, orchestral color is beautifully provided by the Boston Symphony under Erich Leinsdorf, and flashy keyboard fireworks are brilliantly set off by the young Brazilian pianist Joáo Carlos Martins...
Name Plate on the Door? Nixdorf continues to concentrate on small-think even though other computers are getting bigger and faster. His company is ready to turn out a computer that uses either keyboard, punch cards or tape, as the customer demands; it adds whatever memory capacity is required to do what the purchaser wants. Prices, depending on sophistication, range from $5,000 to $80,000. Nixdorf remains cordial with the big boys by buying printers from IBM and making a data-logging small computer for Siemens...