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Yannatos showed further short-sightedness when he rotated the instrumentalists within his wind section--an extraordinary policy which resulted in a superb flute performance in Stravinsky's Petrushka and then abysmal, brittle, out-of-tune music from the flutes and oboes in the Dvorak. The sloppy wind performance in the cello concerto obscured a strong effort by the strings to match at least partially the virtuosity of Starker...
Keeping with something of a tradition, the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra has a big-name guest solist, cellist Janos Starker. Though Vivaldi concerti are not everyone's favorite, the Dvorak should be an exciting piece; and the inclusion of Stravinsky's Petrushka was a good choice. Class consciousness has returned to Harvard: seats at Sanders will be sold...
SANDERS THEATER. Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra. Stravinsky: Petrushka; and Janos Starker, cello soloist, in concerti by Dvorak and Vivaldi. Tickets: $4-3-2-1 at Holyoke Center Ticket Office. Friday, November...
STRAVINSKY: PETRUSHKA (Columbia). Conductor Pierre Boulez at his and the composer's best...
Stravinsky: Petrushka (New York Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez conductor, Columbia, $5.98). Boulez's first recording with his new charges at the Philharmonic, and a sonic dazzler. When Stravinsky conducted this music, he deliberately gave it a kind of squeeze-box accordion sound, as though trying to match the marionette-stage milieu of the puppet hero. Boulez's performance is much broader in both aura and atmosphere, as if his touchstones were the gay, extroverted Shrovetide Fair scenes that open and close the work. The approaches are opposed but, happily, of equal validity...