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A romantic of the old school, Oistrakh favors far slower tempos than most modern violinists, often imbues the music of Brahms, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky with the sort of kindling warmth that has reminded many a listener of Oistrakh's early idol, Fritz Kreisler. Whatever he plays-classics or occasional moderns...
Aphorisms Like Petals. The man inside all these textiles has a stupendous ego, and the only characters who come near him in all of fiction are Spenser's Braggadochio and Plautus' Braggart Warrior. "If I didn't have an enormous ego and a monumental pride, how in...
The trouble with Brubeck, according to the Daily Mail's Kenneth Allsop, is that his music has no connection with "the real raw emotions of jazz." Since the insistently cool Modern Jazz Quartet, a favorite of critics on both sides of the Atlantic, is frequently praised for its lack...
Beethoven's grand "Tempest" sonata (Op. 31, No. 2) dominated the program. Mr. Boyk's interpretation could be challenged here more than anywhere else. For example, he began at a Killing tempo, and it ended up wounding him; the first movement was too fast. While he had never swelled beyond...
Danny Kaye Tells Six Stories from Faraway Places (Golden). One of the world's most inveterate collectors of tales offers some fine new ones from Scotland, Ethiopia, Sweden, Russia, Viet Nam. Narrator Kaye is as good as he ever was at making his gaudily disjointed visions flower in the...