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<text id=93HT0659>
<title>
1984: Music
</title>
<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1984 Highlights
</history>
<article>
<source>Time Magazine</source>
<hdr>
January 7, 1985
MUSIC
BEST OF '84
</hdr>
<body>
<p>Classical
</p>
<p>GEORGE ANTHEIL. LA FEMME 100 TETES (CRI). Pianist David Albee
plays 45 wildly inventive preludes (1933) by the bad boy of
American music.
</p>
<p>BACH. THE UNACCOMPANIED CELLO SUITES (CBS Masterworks).
Patrician readings by Yo-Yo Ma of the cello literature's most
challenging test.
</p>
<p>BRAHMS: PIANO CONCERTO NO. 1 (Deutsche Grammophon). Krystian
Zimerman and Leonard Bernstein give the ferocious concerto a
lofty performance.
</p>
<p>MOZART: REQUIEM (L'OISEAU-LYRE). Christopher Hogwood
fervently leads Musicologist Richard Maunder's new edition of
the unfinished masterpiece.
</p>
<p>ORFF: CARMINA BURANA (London). Conductor Riccardo Chailly
gives Orff's Wheel of Fortune a lusty spin.
</p>
<p>RACHMANINOFF: SYMPHONY NO. 2 (Angel). Simon Rattle leads the
Los Angeles Philharmonic in a complete version of the romantic
score.
</p>
<p>RAMEAU: PYGMALION (Erato). Conductor Nicholas McGegan's
graceful performance of the gentle opera-ballet.
</p>
<p>SCHUMANN: KINDERSZENEN: ARABESQUE. BRAHMS: PIANO WORKS
(Nonesuch). Ivan Moravec has it all: taste, technique and the
talent to combine the two.
</p>
<p>RICHARD STRAUSS: DER ROSENKAVALIER (Deutsche Grammophon).
Herbert von Karajan leads a sterling silver cast in Strauss's
nostalgic Viennese nosegay.
</p>
<p>VERDI: MACBETH (Philips). Renato Bruson is a driven Scottish
thane under Giuseppe Sinopoli's electric leadership.
</p>
<p>Rock
</p>
<p>RUBEN BLADES Y SEIS DEL SOLAR: BUSCANDO AMERICA
(Elektra/Asylum). The title translates as "Searching for
America." But no translation is necessary to catch the salsa
rhythms and deft jazz inflections that surround these political
parables.
</p>
<p>THE DEL-LORDS: FRONTIER DAYS (EMI/America). A major-label
debut by a hang-tough New York band.
</p>
<p>LITTLE STEVEN & THE DISCIPLES OF SOUL: VOICE OF AMERICA
(EMI/America). Vast thematic ambition and a heart big enough
to bring it off.
</p>
<p>MALCOLM MCLAREN: FANS (Island). The man who launched the Sex
Pistols takes a shot at opera. Surprise: it's lyrical and
funny.
</p>
<p>THE NEVILLE BROTHERS: NEVILLE-IZATION (Black Top).
Cosmopolitan funk, New Orleans style.
</p>
<p>ELVIS PRESLEY: ELVIS--A GOLDEN CELEBRATION (RCA). Six
volumes of the King's first big-time salvos.
</p>
<p>THE PRETENDERS: LEARNING TO CRAWL (Sire). Music for dancing
along the jagged edge.
</p>
<p>PRINCE AND THE REVOLUTION: PURPLE RAIN (Warner Bros.). Maybe
the greatest original sound-track score since rock came to
movies.
</p>
<p>BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: BORN IN THE U.S.A. (Columbia). Songs about
bad memories and blind hope: rock record of the year.
</p>
<p>PETER WOLF: LIGHTS OUT (EMI/America). The lead singer of the
J. Geils Band flies solo and earns his wings.</p>
</body>
</article>
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