home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- <text>
- <title>
- (1982) Music
- </title>
- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1982 Highlights
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- January 3, 1983
- MUSIC
- BEST OF '82
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>CLASSICAL
- </p>
- <p>Bach Goldberg Variations (CBS Masterworks). Eloquent,
- insightful playing from the late pianist Glenn Gould.
- </p>
- <p>Bruckner: Symphony No. 8 (Philips, 2 LPs). Bernard Haitink
- leads Amsterdam's Concertgebouw Orchestra in a serene, glowing
- performance.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>Elgar: Violin Concerto (Deutsche Grammophon). Itzhak Perlman
- triumphs in Elgar's most restrained major work.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>Reich: Tehillim (ECM/Warner Bros.) In the year of minimalism,
- Steve Reich's hypnotic psalms are a modern ode to joy.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>Alexander Zemlinsky: Lyric Symphony (Deutsche Grammophon).
- Lorin Maazel leads a vivid performance of this lush, intense
- late romantic song cycle.
- </p>
- <p>ROCK
- </p>
- <p>Ry Cooder: The Border (Backstreet/MCA). Texas blues and a
- theme song straight from the heart: the sound track from the
- hard-boiled movie.
- </p>
- <p>Greg Copeland: Revenge Will Come (Geffen). A tough mix of
- lilting melodies with wracking romanticism and Christian
- mysticism.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>Billy Joel: The Nylon Curtain (Columbia). Joel's longest reach
- and his strongest shot yet.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
- <p>Bruce Springsteen: Nebraska (Columbia). Just guitar, harmonica
- and ten songs: a nightmare geography of America.
- </p>
- <p>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.
- </p>
-
- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
-