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...subject: the cult of courtly love and the service of the lady fair. In Dante's life the lady fair was Beatrice. A 14th century biographer reports, not altogether reliably, that she was a daughter of Folco Portinari, a Florentine nobleman, and that she looked like "a little angel." Dante, the account continues, met Beatrice when he was nine and she was eight, and he swore to love her forever. On the evidence of his poetry, he adored her from a distance. But the affair was nevertheless passionate and profound. When Beatrice died at 24, Dante was shaken...
...Look Homeward, Angel Tom Wolfe, not by fifty gallons of corn pone, but a well-mannered young fellow from Richmond, with long brown hair floating down both sides of a pale, round face that looks more like 24 than 34. This is a Wolfe in chic's clothing: off-white suit, lemon-colored tie, brown-and-white pin-stripe shirt with French cuffs, wine-colored silk handkerchief puffing out of the jacket pocket-when he gets dressed up, in short, he looks like a well-polished Pierce-Arrow...
BRUCKNER: FOURTH SYMPHONY (Angel). Otto Klemperer's approach to Bruckner's "Romantic" symphony is majestic but brisk, brassy and free of the tedious, otherworldly vapors that sometimes surround the innocent mystic's lengthy work. This is one of six recordings with London's Philharmonia Orchestra (including symphonies by Stravinsky, Dvorak and Mozart) that celebrate Klemperer's 80th birthday...
...TOSCA (Angel; 2 LPs). Justly famed as Tosca, which she sang on her recent return to the Metropolitan Opera, Maria Callas today gives performances brimming with passion. But this newly recorded Callas has a nearly unbeatable rival-the Callas of twelve years ago. Since then her voice and even, occasionally, her characterization have hardened, and though the drama may at times be heightened, cerebral firepower is no substitute for vocal beauty. Baritone Tito Gobbi is again a superb Scarpia...
MONTEVERDI: THE CORONATION OF POPPEA (Angel; 2 LPs). Monteverdi's last opera was the first with psychologically true characters who tell their story in almost continuous melody rather than long declamations. Conducted by John Pritchard for the Glyndebourne Festival, this is a cut-down version, but it includes all the scenes leading up to the triumph of immorality. The able cast includes Tenor Richard Lewis as the love-struck Nero, Soprano Magda Laszlo as Poppea and Soprano Frances Bible as Ottavia...