Word: withing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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Tchaikovsky and Verdi Arias, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, baritone; Valery Gergiev conducting the Rotterdam Philharmonic (Philips). Hvorostovsky, 28, has a voice that is big, rich and -- most important -- silky smooth. There hasn't been a baritone with this force and allure since the young Hermann Prey.
Beethoven: "Diabelli" Variations, Alfred Brendel, piano (Philips). The publisher asked Beethoven for one variation of a simple little waltz tune; he wrote 33, and a masterpiece. Brendel performs with style and insight, verve and elan.
Carlene Carter: I Fell in Love (Reprise). A world-beater album sung by a woman whose voice, with its leathery delicacy, can handle tunes of hard traveling and wrong-turn loving with equal finesse. If country music is still a man's game, Carter is effortlessly bending the rules.
Falsettoland The conclusion of composer-lyricist William Finn's brilliant minimalist trilogy about a man's struggle for sexual identity blends the same style of daffy Manhattan humor (about nouvelle kosher cuisine, opulent bar mitzvah parties and "the lesbians from next door") with the newfound and baffling pain of AIDS...
Prelude to a Kiss Beneath Craig Lucas' wry Broadway comedy about a magical identity swap is a haunting metaphoric response to AIDS. It asks the unanswerable question: What do you do when the young person you fell in love with becomes overnight a dying old man?