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For those who enjoy romantic lapses into the eighteenth century with elusive visions of elegant soirees with flickering tapers and the sparkling tones of the clavichord, the recording of Hadyn's "Concerto en Fa pour clavecin et orchestre" should be an especial delight. A small orchestra accompanies Mme. Roesgen-Champion...
The E flat Symphony of Mozart is as happy a composition as may be found in musical literature, though it was not played with all the spontaneity that might have been wished for. There is a passage in the last movement in which there is no theme but just a...
The tremendous scope of the Ring with its mass of detail is frightening to many a first hearer. Richard Wagner was 26 years writing it, doing first the poem of Die Gotterdammerung, prefacing it then with Siegfried, Die Walkure, Rheingold. Before the music was written Wagner turned out Tristan and...
Last week both Klemperer and Los Angeles appeared to have found what they wanted. Klemperer, 48, so tall (6 ft. 4 in.) that he uses no podium, gave stirring vitality to Bach, Stravinsky, Beethoven. He was as exciting to watch as the music he made, quivering his left hand like...
The program for the first recital follows: Bach, Prelude in G. Major; Brahms, Choral Prelude. "A Rose breaks forth;" Wagner, Zug zum Munster ("Lohengrin"); Wider. Andante Cantable (Forth Symphony); Guilmant, Minuet (Forth Sonata).