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Brahms: Trio No. 1 , in B Major (Artur Rubinstein, piano; Jascha Heifetz, violin; Emanuel Feuermann, cello; Victor; 8 sides). Three great artists, tops in their fields, submerged their prima donna instincts late last summer in Victor's Hollywood studios to breathe rich new life into an old trio...
Kern: Show Boat: Scenario for Orchestra (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 6 sides). The Show Boat tunes, some of the bravest in U.S. operetta, were dressed up last year by their composer in symphonic finery at the persuasion of Conductor Rodzinski. The resulting potpourri is lush, places Jerome Kern no whit nearer Beethoven as a symphonist, but Rodzinski's silky performance makes even more apparent Kern's Schubertian gift for melody...
...Deum composed in 1936 by the Hungarian composer Zoltan Kodaly, to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Budapest's emancipation from Turkey. The program -by the Cleveland Orchestra -was short-waved "live" from Cleveland's Severance Hall, reached Bataan at churchtime Sunday morning. Said Conductor Artur Rodzinski, introducing it: "To you, our salute and our prayers." Said Commentator Kay Halle: "In such moments a hymn of praise and thanksgiving can say more than any words...
Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 12 sides). For all its old-hat grotesqueness, this underrated masterpiece well deserves the pulsing performance which Rodzinski gives it, also merits a better recording...
...Artur Rubinstein is no kin to Russia's late Pianist Anton Rubinstein, one of the greatest of all time. Irritated at being continually asked whether they were related, he once bought a cap labeled "No." To Artur Rubinstein are dedicated the two toughest keyboard workouts of all time: 1) Stravinsky's "Sonata" from his ballet score Petrouchka; 2) Rudepoema, a ferocious tonal portrait of Rubinstein by Brazilian Heitor Villa-Lobos, whom the pianist helped launch. Rubinstein's tremendous digital attack once wrecked a piano of the late Queen Victoria, at a performance for the present Duke...