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...played away from the harpsichord and organ. In the artistic center of the interpretive storm are a number of impeccably good pianists who play Bach's music better than it has been played since Mendelssohn resurrected the St. Matthew Passion in 1829. The best of these are Rosalyn Tureck and Glenn Gould...
Spiritual Momentum. In performance, Tureck, 49, is rigorously severe. She strides to the piano and sits down to play with imposing authority and total concentration. Last week, in her annual Philharmonic Hall performance of the Goldberg Variations, she played without intermission or breaks for applause for 83 minutes-and when she stood at last, the cheers that greeted her seemed like shouts from the heart...
Married. Rosalyn Tureck. 47, intense, Chicago-born pianist who since the death of Wanda Landowska has reigned in Europe and the U.S. as the high priestess of Bach; and James Elliott Armstrong Hainds, 45, Chicago architect; both for the second time; in Manhattan...
...star-packed jury, which included Conductor Leopold Stokowski, Pianists Artur Rubinstein, Rosalyn Tureck, Grant Johannesen, Jacob Lateiner and Eugene List, had four finalists to choose from-three of them Americans, one Argentine. Winner Anievas, Manhattan-born but of Spanish and Mexican extraction, played the Rachmaninoff Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, and he proved to be a pianist in the big, romantic tradition of a Rubinstein or Cliburn. Occasionally guilty of mere pounding, he nevertheless had prodigious technique and the kind of rhapsodic, deeply felt musical vision that suggests a major career...
Small, intense Pianist Tureck, who has never formally studied conducting, began only two years ago, when she got the chance to do eight Bach concertos with Copenhagen's Collegium Musicum. Since then, she has successfully led the Philharmonia Orchestra in a series of concerts that sold out London's Royal Festival Hall. She still plays regularly under other conductors. But when she herself can boss the orchestra, she feels that she can come several steps closer to the real Bach...