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"Musically
at home... A stylistic assurance, a fleetness of finger, an awareness
of tonal colour and dynamic gradations...Debussy was his kind of music,
an identification that was convincingly maintained." "It
was fitting in his New York debut last night that the pianist should play
all French music. The pianist's resource in programming was admirable
(d'Indy Poem of the Mountains) and his performance did it justice. He
is an able pianist with accurate fingers who produces an unusually round,
full tone. The Fauré was played with fine clarity and fluidity." "A
player who really thinks and feels for himself. In everything he does
there is the excitement of a real artistic talent at work. This type of
colorful piano playing speaks of an imaginative and artistic approach
seldom heard." "In
reality it was as though we were receiving Schubert from his very sources,
in an interpretation of great simplicity, spontaneity and freshness, but
not, for that reason, lacking in lyricism and depth." "The
week-long Russian Music Festival opened Sunday with a thrilling, powerfully
communicative performance of Mussoursky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Most
important is the praise he deserves for his performance - a thrusting,
purposeful pianisitic assault that - throughout its bold, driving realization
- remained always musical. |