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...four clavichord pieces played by Edward Dunham III, the last three were delightful. The first was dull but interesting as an historical curiosity, for it is the earliest extant keyboard music (dated c.1325). Dunham demonstrated that the clavichord can produce all the dynamic shades from very soft to very, very, very soft. He underlined the informality of the evening by puffing a pipe in time to his playing...
...program opened with Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, in which Cynthia Crain, Annette Colish and Kenneth McIntosh all played with assurance the solo parts for flute, violin and keyboard, respectively (a piano was used for the original harpsichord). Though technically a concerto grosso, this work is in a sense the first real solo concerto for keyboard, owing to the general prominence and the extended cadenza allotted to it. McIntosh's runs were as even as pearls, and he exerted admirable dynamic restraint throughout (his versatility even extended to playing the horn in the other works). The initial orchestral tempo...
Earlier that evening, at his Carnegie Hall concert, he displayed the style that in a few years has made him stand out in a crowded field. He hunched owl-like over the keyboard, played with his fingers close to the keys, his only visible flourishes an occasional phrase-smoothing gesture...
...many listeners, acrobatic, unyielding and overdissonant, hardly the kind of thing to herald a new performer. But the New York Times's Olin Downes published a rave. "The pianist who adequately performs the part needs endless strength, swiftness and must be something of a cyclone at the keyboard . . . Mr. Scarpini fulfilled the requirements ... a pianist of prodigious capacities . . . whirlwind virtuosity and rhythmic drive." The rest of the press agreed...
...deeply, "I only wish I could see you all better." The lights went on and the maestro lisped quietly, "Isn't that wonderful, George." The lights dimmed, leaving two mauves spots which focused on a fives-branched candelabra glowing on top of the piano. Resting his fingers on the keyboard, he turned and simpered, "I can't believe it," then swung into the Cornish Rhapsody...