Word: pianists
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bartok: Allegro Barbara, Rumanian Dance, Suite Op. 14, etc. (Bela Bartok, pianist; Bartok Recording Studio; 2 sides LP). A collector's item-and a must for pianists who want to hear how Bartok played his own music. Originally recorded in Europe more than 15 years ago, the numbers have been well re-recorded by Bartok's son Peter...
Last week, the New York Philharmonic's CBS Sunday radio audience heard him tackle the Concerto in D Minor of Mozart, a composer whose clear textures give pianists little chance to hide blunders in taste or technique. Pianist Firkusny had nothing to hide: his technique was clean; his style, unlike that of many another Mozart player, was neither cold, coy nor kittenish. At week's end, on his 38th birthday, he showed an audience in Hunter College's recital hall his fluency and force in other styles: Beethoven, Debussy, Czech Composer Jan Dussek, Stravinsky, and the poetic...
Chicago audiences, for one, might see & hear a good deal more of Pianist Firkusny. His childhood friend is 35-year-old Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik, the Chicago Symphony's new boss...
Schumann: Fantaslestücke (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 6 sides 45 r.p.m.) Rubinstein can be hard! to beat when he settles down to it; here, playing one of Schumann's most poetic pieces with great simplicity and beauty of tone, he is incomparable. Recording: excellent...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Conductor-Pianist Leonard Bernstein playing Beethoven's First Piano Concerto...