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Music
January 3, 1983
CLASSICAL
Bach Goldberg Variations (CBS Masterworks). Eloquent, insightful
playing from the late pianist Glenn Gould.
Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Philips, 2 LPs). Bernard Haitink leads
Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra in a serene, glowing performance.
Elliott Carter: The Early Music (CRI). The cerebral composer has
his roots in the folksy American idiom of Ives and Copland, as this
disc surprisingly shows.
Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman
triumphs in Elgar's most restrained major work.
Handel: Water Music (Erato). This buoyant, vital performance on
original instruments by John Eliot Gardiner and the English Baroque
Soloists is simply the best available.
Mahler: Symphony No. 7 (RCA, 2 LPs). The Song of the Night defeats
most conductors. James Levine and the Chicago Symphony crack its
secrets with a powerful performance.
Mozart: Le Nozze di Figaro (London, 4 LPs). Matchless Mozartean Sir
Georg Solti leads the London Philharmonic and a cast including Kiri
Te Kanawa in a sparkling reading.
Reich: Tehillim (ECM/Warner Bros.) In the year of minimalism, Steve
Reich's hypnotic psalms are a modern ode to joy.
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (Archiv). Forget the 45 other versions in
the catalogue. Violinist Simon Standage's dashing performance, with
Trevor Pinnock leading the English Concert, is the one to have when
you're having only one.
Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony (Deutsche Grammophon). Lorin
Maazel leads a vivid performance of this lush, intense late romantic
song cycle.
ROCK
Ry Cooder: The Border (Backstreet/MCA). Texas blues and a theme
song straight from the heart: the sound track from the hard-boiled
movie.
Greg Copeland: Revenge Will Come (Geffen). A tough mix of lilting
melodies with wracking romanticism and Christian mysticism.
Elvis Costello and the Attractions: Imperial Bedroom (Columbia). A
funny valentine from a man who is still delighted to be one of rock's
most idiosyncratic talents.
Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain (Columbia). Joel's longest reach and
his strongest shot yet.
David Johansen: Live It Up. (Blue Sky/CBS). He was supposed to be
too wild to be wrestled onto record. But they finally pinned him,
live. A dance-'till-dawn classic.
Little Steven and the Disciples of Soul: Men Without Women (EMI
America). Anthems for back alleys and high spirits by the most
exciting new band since the Clash.
Paul McCartney: Tug Of War (Columbia). He is still rock's supreme
balladeer, and Here Today is the simplest and best memorial to John
Lennon anyone has written.
Lou Reed: The Blue Mask (RCA). An exorcist whose major struggle is
with his own ghosts, Reed still keeps a few paces ahead with a
rearing cycle of autobiographical songs.
Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska (Columbia). Just guitar, harmonica and
ten songs: a nightmare geography of America.
Richard and Linda Thompson: Shoot Out the Lights (Hannibal).
Stifled emotion, broken marriages, betrayal: a series of linked love
songs on the year's most pitiless, passionate disc.