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Dmitri Shostakovich: Fifth Symphony (Cleveland Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia; 10 sides). Most popular of Fire Warden Shostakovich's big, embattled symphonies, the Fifth has already been recorded by Stokowski and the Philadelphians for Victor. The Clevelanders do a brilliant job, but Stokowski's recording is still tops...
Battle Royal. Before the first strip of film had gone into the enlarger, three topflight U.S. conductors, all Shostakovich champions-sleek, platinum-haired Leopold Stokowski, the Cleveland Orchestra's Artur Rodzinski, Boston's Serge Koussevitzky-were locked in a polite battle royal for the glory of conducting the premi...
Mendelssohn: A Midsummer Night's Dream (Cleveland Orchestra conducted ) by Artur Rodzinski; Columbia; 8 sides). The first up-to-date recording of this popular classic. But Rodzinski's steely precision makes Mendelssohn's airy fairies march like storm troopers...
Brahms: Six Intermezzi and Two Rhapsodies (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor; 8 sides). Gruff, warmhearted Brahms is revealed in these rugged romantic works of small-scale architecture, played with fire, poetry, complete authority...
...brilliant musical propaganda stunt was pulled off last week by Polish-born Conductor Artur Rodzinski and his Cleveland Symphony Orchestra. From the works of Hitler's favorite composer, Wagner, Dr. Rodzinski exhumed a stirring overture, Rule, Britannia (based on the tune of the famed British patriotic song of the same name), dedicated to the British by Wagner in 1837, and gave it the musical works. By way of introducing it to his audience, Dr. Rodzinski said he doubted that the Nazis remembered the existence of their idol's opus...