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THE MICHIGAN DAILY
Tuesday, September 30, 1969
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By R A PERRY
Few people these d a
walking around A n n
thinking about oboes, bu
are one of the select (I
believing Ars longa, vita
you no doubt think of t
asan emitter of piquan
sounds suitable for pun
lush strings and enliven
valdi concerti. If t h a t
case, you have not her
oboe as played by Harol
berg.
Gomberg, of the Ne
Philharmonic, can make
strument sound as r i cI
clarinet, as think as a b
as haunting as an Englis
as sweet as a flute, and
piquant as, oddly eno
oboe. The Gomberg soun
ceedingly creamy and w
trolled in both tehniq
expression. A new Va
Cardinal r e l e a s e (VS
presents Gomberg's uniq
colorism in worthwhilea
teresting repertoire by Be
Britten and Mozart.
Britten's Fantasy Quar
Six Metamorphoses Afte
the latter new to Schwa
both relatively early and
works of the compose
Fantasy Quartet, for ob
lin, viola, and cello, was
when Britten was a sch
student at the Royal Co
Music and, though it pla
gerly with dissonances, i
t.ially tempers such p
with an English pench
bucolic lyricism, It is "m
in the sense that an ear
ghn Williams symphony
ern. The Fantasy, on
movement, pivots upon
motives with the drama
sized by the strings a ni
the oboe adding aereate
mentation a n d comn
The work holds no metal
pretensions, and, like n
Britten's music, provide
ant divertisement.
Written for solo ob
Six Metamorphoses aft
dramatizes- again with I
flationary posturing-th
formations of Pan, P
Niobe, Bacchus, Narciss
Arethusa. The oboe imit
reed pipe of Pan andt
nienting voice of Niobe;
rates the fall of Phaeto
effective is the "echo" e
Narcissus observes his re
in the pool; here Gi
makes the transitionb
face and reflection astou
smooth and beautiful. Thl
written In 1951, Is quit
and Gomberg's oboe co
be more expressive.
Also included on thi
guard release is the
Quartet in F major a wo
known and needing litt
ment here. Gomberg, Ra
Zaslav, and Stuch perfoi
lingering affection.
A much less successf
guard recording offers G
Novaes playing "favorit
pin." (VCS-10059) Nov
always been one of th
"natural" pianists, that
oboes,
playing always appeared limpid
and flowing, never forced, subtle
y s are in its gradients of tempi and
Arbor coloring, never banal. Unfor-
t if you tunately, Novaes never received
perhaps the sonic reproduction she de-
brevis) served ,and although her Vox
he oboe recordings of Chopin, Mendels-
t, citric sohn, and Beethoven are still to
(ituring be cherished, they always some-
ing Vi- how seemed a distant commo-
is the dity.
rd the On this Vanguard recording,
d Gom- Novaes receives exemplary piano
reproduction, but something has
v Yrk happened to her touch. Tempos
his in-
h s lI' are halting, lines are awkwardly
asa broken, details are exaggerated.
ba ssoon. Her redntions of the Ballade No.
h horn, 3 and the Ballade No. 4 sound
even as almost crude next to Rubin-
igh. an stein's or Ashkenazy's - and I
ell-co- never though "crude" would be
el-con- a word I would use in reference
su and to Novaes. Only the Berceuse,
anguard Op. 57, emerges as successful.
-10064) When one returns to her old
ue oboe recordings of the Nocturnes or
njamin of Schumann's Kinderszenen,
this present album seems a be-
'tet ad wildering fall from grace.
r Ovid, Another disappointing piano
nn. are recital comes from Aleksander
typical Slobodyanik, a twenty-five year
r. The old Russian being promoted in
oe, vio- this country by Angel Records.
written On Angel SR-40109, Slobody-
olarship anik intellectualizes Haydn's
lege of Sonata No. 48 and, in seeking
tys gin- to make every gesture interest-
t essen- ing, effects a precocious and
assages overly-stylized performance that
ant for misses completely both Hadyn's
nodern" wit and the music's arching
ly Vau- line. Four Chopin Mazurkas like-
is mod- 'vise lack internal motivation.
e long Slobodyanik's performance of
march the Prokofiev Sixth Sonata-
empha- the music is both thundering
d with and path:tic- -has been hailed
d orna- as "pianistically brilliant. It
aentary. certainly is powerful and well-
physical controlled. Nevertheless, in
most of those moments of crisp, almost
s pleas- by contrast dainty details which
Prokofiev sets into the m o r e
oe, the monolithic dense passages,
er Ovid Slobodyanik lacks requisite
ittle in- lightness of touch. There is no
e trans- denying the pianist's power and
haeton, skills here, and the Tempo di
us, and walzer movement comes across
ates the quite movingly, but Sandor's
the la- performance on Vox is still both
it nar- more dynamic and more sharp.
n. Most Remember with awe, however,
ffect as that Slobodyanik is only twen-
flection ty-five.
3omberg Columbia seems to have a
o pin a
corner on the kitsch market
these days. They have made a
killing with electric Bach and
their "Favorite Hits of Great
Composers" snippet series sell
by the millions to TV G u i d e
subscribers everywh re. (Real-
ly. is Grieg's Ich Liebe Dich a
"favorite hit?")
Most recently Columbia has
come out with an admittedly
fascinating album (MS 7335,
entitled Moondog. Moondog
seems to be the alias of a blind
composer by the name of Louis
Hardin who writes all his music
in braille. Giving his biography
on the liner notes, Moondog
comes up with one fine anec-
dote: "Rodzinski introduced
me to Toscanini. I made as to
kiss his hand, whereupon he
pulled it away, saying, 'I am
not a beautiful wvoman.'
Like Harry Partch and Nor-
man Nancarrow, Moondog writ-
es musical anomalies that can
only be heard, not categorized.
Exceedingly interested in form
less, unlike Partch, in p u r e
sound), Moondog composes brief
works classically constructed but
of unusual instrumentation.
Drawing deeply upon jazz,
Moondog writes his solo lines
for flugelhorn, alto sax, clar-
inet, and french horn, among
other instruments aligned with
the jazz band. He makes ex-
tensive use of percussions. Of
the eight pieces on the record-
ing, not one exceeds seven min-
utes in length, and dedications
go out to Benny Goodman, Mar-
tha Graham, and Thor the
Nordoom.
What does the music sound
like? Pieces such as Theme and
Lament 1 are lyrical and rhy-
thmically intieresting; they
swing in a slightly arthritic
fashion. Other pieces such as
Symphonique No. 6 sound like
trite movie music arranged by
Lalo Schifrin. All the pieces
seem uncomfortably bound by
their forms yet, without the ar-
matures, the musical ideas
would collapse into triviality.
You may disagree about this
unusual album, but somehow I
feel that the packaging inflates
the meager product.
nd
Mvoon dog
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