Word: brendel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Concert of Mozart and Strauss--Boston Symphony Orchestra; Klaus Tennstedt, conductor; Alfred Brendel, pianist, Symphony Hall...
Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Philips, 13 LPs); Beethoven: The Late Piano Sonatas (Deutsche Grammophon, 3 LPs). A connoisseur's choice: Alfred Brendel's fine detail or Maurizio Pollini's grand sonority...
Beethoven: The Complete Piano Sonatas (Pianist Alfred Brendel, Philips; 13 LPs). The 32 sonatas, which explore every facet of the keyboard, are an Olympian effort for a performer. Brendel, a meticulous scholar and flawless technician, concentrates on incisive detail rather than drama. If such sonatas as the Appassionata lack grandeur, one can still admire the impeccable musical lines...
...sophomore Jim Strathmeyer, wrestling with a slightly injured knee, outpointed Jazenski of Pittsburgh, 7-0. Junior Bart VanDissel, wrestling third-seeded Neil Brendel of Yale, lost by a fall...
Schubert: Piano Sonata in A. Op. Posth. (Alfred Brendel; Philips, $6.98). A steadfastly rich, varied piece of music, less rambling than the dour ¶minor and the ethereal-and best-known-B Flat, all of which Schubert wrote in the last months of his life. Surprisingly from the suave, precise Brendel, the performance could now and then use a more expressive turn of phrase; but it is still the performance to have, at least until somebody gets around to reissuing the nonpareil Schnabel version...