Article: GENIUS OF YURI BASHMET REDEFINES THE VIOLA

YURI BASHMET, viola, with MIKHAIL MOUNTIAN, piano -- In a

recital in Jordan Hall last night.

Last month the president of the Moscow Conservatory described the violist Yuri Bashmet as a "genius player." Last night Bashmet made his American debut in a preview concert for the Soviet-American festival of "Making Music Together," and there's no question that he is a genius. He may not have put his best foot forward in the first half of his concert, but even then it was already apparent that the Ukrainian violist, still in his early 30s, belongs to the history of his instrument; he has extended and redefined its possibilities. Like Richter or Rostropovich or Annie Fischer or Joan ...

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