Word: rubinstein
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Pianist Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven, Violinist David Oistrakh performing Bach, and the Bolshoi Ballet in an excerpt from Giselle...
...four U.S. cities, the album has now sold 15,000 copies. This week Mozart's "new" hit climbed to No. 21 on Billboard's chart of bestselling classical records. And the surge is spreading to other versions: RCA's five-year-old issue, played by Artur Rubinstein, is selling four times faster since Elvira arrived...
Violist Michael Tree offered a suggestion. "Maybe," he told the old man, "you could come in a little slower, maybe more quietly." Violinist John Dalley agreed with a nod. "Fine," said the old man, "let's try it." And Artur Rubinstein, a month short of his 81st birthday, led three members of the Guarneri Quartet, whose average age was 36, back to the microphones for another try at Brahms's Piano Quartet in G Minor...
Last week Rubinstein began what has become his annual New York endurance contest, this time in the form of nine Carnegie Hall recitals in seven weeks. Those few pianists half his age with the stamina for such a task would likely spend months in agonizing preparation for the ordeal; Rubinstein walked away from the whole problem, instead took down from a dusty shelf the three Brahms Piano Quartets that he had not played publicly or privately for over a decade, and got them back into his fingers and heart for the recording sessions. Why this, rather than brushing...
Youth and age were in close contact as Rubinstein and the members of the superb quartet worked through the spacious, gypsy-tinged passion of Brahms, accepting, rejecting, arguing and agreeing as four equal colleagues. Rubinstein "discovered" the Guarneri last year, when he heard tapes of the quartet's first studio session. "There was an immediate chemical reaction," says RCA Victor Producer Max Wilcox. So far, one result of that chemistry has been released, the Brahms Piano Quintet. The Schumann Piano Quintet will be issued soon. Were the quartet members awed by a collaboration involving a 50-year...