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In Praise of Rachmaninoff
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THE recent appearance of Vladimir Horowitz with the New York Philharmonic and Eugene Ormandy in Carnegie Hall-interesting for so many reasons both historical and contemporary-provided yet another manifestation of the present gulf between public taste and advanced musical opinion. No exponent of the advanced himself, Horowitz chose as a vehicle for his first performance with an orchestra in twenty-five years Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Third Concerto (1909), not only one of the longest and toughest, but also perhaps the last famous piano concerto written in the 19th-century tradition.
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