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MusicA. s is the case with so many of yesterday’s great performing musicians, the survival of the playing of the once vastly admired Dutch pianist Egon Petri (1881-1962) has been assured by the reissue of some of his many recordings and by their easy availability, in the past on LP and now on CD. In the 1970s, there was an EMI release in Japan[1] of several of Petri’s many 78-RPM pre-World War II commercial recordings, most of them originally issued on the English Columbia label and then released in due course on American Columbia.[2] In the early 1950s, Petri recorded the Beethoven “Hammerklavier” Sonata for American Columbia; later in the 1950s, he also made several LP ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 10 April 1992, on page 45 Copyright © 2013 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Egon-Petri--the-musician-as-virtuoso-4543
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Lincoln Center's chamber music problems On the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center at 25. On three CDs of contemporary music from New World Records & a reissue of performances by tenor Jan Kiepura. On recent performances, including Stephanie Blythe, Francesca da Rimini, the New York Philharmonic, the Artemis Quartet, Sol Gabetta, the Škampa Quartet, and more. Coverage of the Brentano String Quartet, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Parsifal at the Met, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and more. On Rigoletto at the Met, Zhou Long's Bell Drum Towers, Kyle Blaha's Triptych, performances by the New York Philharmonic, Dorothea Röschmann, and more.
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Celebration of the Life of Robert H. Bork, 1927–2012
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