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13 - Total Helpful Votes: 7719 of 9584
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
On one of his early tours Horowitz played some Ravel to an audience including the composer, and Ravel told him that in Paris his music was played more impressionistically. Ravel did not go so far as to say that was how he wanted it played, but it must at least be highly `authentic' to do it like that. To my dismay I find that my Horowitz collection contains no Ravel, so I am having to guess what the expressions `more/less impressionistic' signify. My hunch is that it may come down to not much more than a matter of the use of the sustaining pedal.
You could not ask for a stronger link with Ravel than Perlemuter, Ravel's own pupil and Horowitz's exact contemporary, provides… Read more
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
If you are looking for a well-plotted and well-written thriller to while away the hours of a long flight, this offering might suit you very well. It is a very promising debut novel, and it is to be the first of a `thrillogy', which must mean that we can look forward to two sequels. However the really intriguing thing about the book is that the action centres on the invention of instantaneous transportation, something that will of course make long flights a thing of the past.
This author likes detail. That is fine by me because so do I, but there is just a risk that you might find the heroine's earnest speechifying a little lengthy in the first half of the story. She explains… Read more
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
After a period as a composer of 12-note serial music Schnittke came to think that this musical technique was unable `to suggest anything comparable to the perspectives of tonal music', to quote the liner note accompanying this disc. I could probably have told him that myself, but I thought I ought to gain some idea of how Schnittke's new scheme worked out. He was deeply impressed, apparently, by Webern's perception of `the basic principle of sonata form as a contrast between Strict and Free', and consequently he tried to replicate this duality by alternating tonal with atonal in his own music. Without any preconceptions of what I was going to find, I thought it a safe bet that there would… Read more
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