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BUSONI: CONCERTO FOR PIANO, ORCHESTRA AND MALE CHORUS (Angel; 2 LPs). A first recording of a huge, seldom heard work that dates in time to 1904 and in style to a still earlier romantic era. Ferruccio Busoni was a pianist in the tradition of Liszt. He was a teacher who...
In private conversations, Schoenman presents another face. He modulates his voice carefully, ticking off the effects of U.S. anti-personnel weapons in a professorial, almost bored tone: "the guava bomb ... steel slivers, each one kills at 150 yards. The fields are pockmarked." Speaking from a profile position, Schoenman attempts to...
The Mozart Symphony No. 36 brought forth better intonation from the winds, and the strings had a pleasing, gentle attack. Like the Schubert, the Mozart was alive, and never dull. Nevertheless, something was missing or misplaced. It was as if the excitement had become confused with the music, so that...
Most interesting in ways was the performance of the Bach E major Violin Concerto by James Oliver Buswell IV. It was practically unconducted, and that created obstacles to the flow from composer to listener. Buswell's head and body gestures did not keep the orchestra together or effect good ritardandi...
In non-musical terms, the force of Bach is in relatively inner things. Feeling is not expressed, to be incorporated again by the listener, but remains inner throughout the conveying process. Thus Saturday evening's performance of the E major concerto achieved vigor but not inner focus.