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Seott Joplin: The Red Back Book (New England Conservatory Ragtime Ensemble, Gunther Schuller conducting. Angel; $5.98). Rag is essentially piano music, but in Scott Joplin's heyday (1897-1917) many of his most popular rags were orchestrated for marching, singing, dancing and just plain strutting. The orchestrations, New Orleans in style (squeaky clarinets and feisty trumpets), make good listening too. Indeed there is not a pianist around these days who-so far, at least-can match the cascading joy of these performances...
...written a narration based on the Gospels and put together a tape of selections from Handel and Berlioz, which they played for John Lavender, the soft-spoken pastor of the First Baptist Church. He was quickly sold on the idea of a pageant, and soon found an anonymous angel who put up $20,000 to get production started...
Bruch: Two Violin Concertos (Yehudi Menuhin, soloist, plays Concerto No. 1 in G Minor and No. 2 in D Minor, London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Adrian Boult conducting, Angel; $5.98). The G Minor Violin Concerto was an instant success, but to Max Bruch's sorrow his second violin concerto won only initial acclaim that soon faded. While the world applauded the G Minor, the neglected D Minor remained Bruch's favorite. Now Yehudi Menuhin has recorded the pair in a performance of such luscious tone and melodic charm that even Bruch's duckling is at last a swan...
...Complete Polonaises (Garrick Ohlsson, Angel; $11.98). Ohlsson, 25, is a big man (6 ft. 4 in., 240 Ibs.), with the requisite mass and muscle for epic works such as the Polonaise in A-Flat Major; yet he is a sensitive colorist. But maybe he ought to wait until he has a stomachache before he next records the gloomy C minor; his performance is positively joyful with the exuberance of his youthful talent...
...tale fantasy, complements Marcel Camus's exotic myth Black Orpheus, set in Rio. Marcel Carne's Le Jour Se Leive [Daybreak] is a suspenseful and symbolic psychological study of a murderer who has locked himself in an attic. It should be better known. Josef von Sternberg's The Blue Angel takes place in a German cabaret between the wars. It was Marlene Dietrich's first film, and as Lola the vamp she sings cabaret songs. Many people think The Grand Illusion the best film ever made; I wouldn't put it that high, but it is undoubtedly a great film...