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From Deutsche Grammophon conies Tchaikovsky's Concerto No. I in B-flat minor, recorded last November with Herbert von Karajan and the Berlin Philharmonic, which is both surprising and gratifying for its underplaying of the work's slam-bang heroics...
Schubert: Trios, Op. 99 in B-Flat and 100 in E-Flat (Henryk Szeryng, violin; Pierre Fournier, cello; Artur Rubinstein, piano; RCA; 2 LPs; $16.98). Corraling a collection of virtuosos to record chamber music is not always a good idea. Having spent years alone in the spotlight, too many of them lack the knack of bobbing and weaving in rhythm with other minds and hearts. Szeryng, Fournier and Rubinstein rank high among the successful exceptions to this individualistic rule. In these trios, each player retains his own particular musical fist yet manages to fit it into his neighbor...
...later, listing contemporary composers who have been thrown back on their "innate, long denied sense of tonality," he says that Stockhausen's Stimmung "spends seventy minutes in B-flat major." In fact, Stimmung is a radically minimalist work consisting of six vocalists humming and chanting a low B-flat fundamental and its various overtones--seventy minutes of some kind of B-flat chord, but not the key of B-flat major by anybody's definition, and certainly not anything resembling tonality...
Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat; Chabrier: Suite Pastorale (Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray conducting; Mercury, $6.98). Bloch: Concert! Gross! Nos. 1 and 2 (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Mercury, $6.98). In the 1950s and '60s, Mercury made an impressive series of U.S. recordings ranging from the nonpareil French interpretations of Paray to the indispensable catalogue of contemporary Americans by Hanson. Many long unavailable, they are now back as part of a novel reissue program. Mercury sent the tapes to The Netherlands, where its sister company Philips provided its usual superior pressings, then shipped them back to be marketed...
...trumpet is 21 in.). At first glance, it looked like a trick cigar lighter. Actually, it is a modern trumpet specially designed for the Baroque repertory. It has four valves -the regular three for melody, plus one valve that when held down changes the horn's pitch from B-flat...