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HAYDN: SYMPHONY No. 93 IN D MAJOR (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 6 sides). A famous Haydn conductor directs a top-flight Haydn symphony in top form...
Rural journalism began as a sideline for job printers. Its editorial basis was local gossip; its financial foundation was patent medicines-Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, Sloan's Liniment, Beecham's Pills, Carter's Little Liver Pills, which were among the first national advertisers. Today there are 11,852 country papers, nearly half of them more than 50 years old, 151 more than 100 years...
SIBELIUS: SYMPHONY No. 4, IN A MINOR: LEMMINKAÏNEN ZIEHT HEIMWARTS; INCIDENTAL MUSIC TO THE TEMPEST (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Victor: 14 sides). Volume 5 of the six-year-old Sibelius Society's definitive edition. The smoldering, cataclysmic Fourth Symphony is generally regarded as Sibelius' masterpiece, and Beecham's Londoners play it with devotion. Gaunt and enigmatic to those not familiar with Sibelius, it improves wonderfully with repeated hearings. The items that follow are lesser, lighter, more ingratiating. Neither is available as a separate recording...
BERLIOZ: THE DAMNATION OF FAUST, ORCHESTRAL EXCERPTS (London Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting; Columbia: 4 sides). Berlioz' flickering and diaphanous orchestral effects brilliantly played. The excerpts are the familiar Minuet of the Will o' the Wisps, Dance of the Sylphs, Hungarian March...
...season's rabbit: an unknown, good-looking, 26-year-old,Polish-born soprano named Margaret Kubatzki. Soprano Kubatzki, making her official Covent Garden debut in a role previously sung by the eminent Kirsten Flagstad (Senta in Wagner's The Flying Dutch-man), created a sensation. Said Conductor Beecham: "One night last October I was turning the various knobs of a wireless ... I heard a magnificent voice. . . . When I went to Germany to make records of the Magic Flute I enquired of every eminent German musician I met as to what he knew about Kubatzki. None of them even...