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...played really well," first-string goalie Grant Blair said. "He made the big saves, which is hard when you haven't played much...
...Standard & Poor's 500 and the New York Stock Exchange composite of 1,200 issues, set record highs day after day. Only on Friday did they dip a bit. Thursday's session marked the 19th consecutive trading day in which rising stocks outnumbered losers, another Big Board record. The string was broken on Friday, but volume for the week was 652 million shares, the fourth- highest in history...
...these two works display it well. The fiery Duo (1914), full of rich and varied strong sonorities, gets a passionate reading from Phillips, who has a flourishing chamber-music career, and Grossman, a Chicago Symphony cellist. Even better is the brooding Sonata (1915), which employs just about every string-writing trick there is, including left-hand pizzicato and scordatura (nonstandard tuning). As close to technical impossibility as a piece can be and still remain playable, the Sonata is a 20th century masterpiece that deserves to be known by all music lovers, not just cellists. Grossman's performance, while...
...bass); Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik (Guarneri Quartet with Julius Levine; RCA). Schubert's ineffable "Trout" Quintet, so named for its use of the composer's song The Trout as the basis of the fourth movement, is one of the glories of the chamber-music repertory, beloved of pianists and string players (and audiences) everywhere for its grace, wit and warmth. Ax's sensitive, full- toned pianism and the Guarneri's rich ensemble are perfectly matched here, to each other and to the piece. Some readings of the "Trout" emphasize its sparkle and brio, but this one favors a relaxed elegance...
...ones as the theme is atomized and then reconstructed in reverse; the modern orchestrational device of flutter-tonguing for flutes and brass is complemented by traditionally virtuosic writing for the solo violinist. Gubaidulina, 53, also evokes her Russian predecessors Stravinsky and Prokofiev, most strikingly in a passage of glissandi string harmonics that recalls The Firebird. By Western standards, Offertorium may be tame, but given the governmental restrictions on the stylistic range of Soviet music, it shows Gubaidulina to be a fresh, challenging voice in her country...