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...BEETHOVEN: SYMPHONY Nos. 1 and 2 (Epic). Ending at the beginning, George Szell and the Cleveland Orchestra have now recorded all nine Beethoven symphonies. Although he amply unfolds the later more dramatic works, Szell perfectly displays his strongest virtues- exquisite clarity, purity, precision and bright buoyancy- in these early symphonies, still primarily classical in design...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY No. 9 (Angel; 2 LPs). Mahler's orchestral masterwork, his last completed symphony, is played in the grand manner by the Berlin Philharmonic, Sir John Barbirolli conducting. The first movement, as long as Beethoven's Fifth Symphony, is full of fluctuating rhythms that move along with a tidelike pull. Barbirolli lets them ebb and flow, then swings vigorously into the dissonant dance movement and the coarse burlesque Rondo that mock the first floating dreams...
...BEETHOVEN: SONATAS FOR PIANO AND CELLO (2 LPs; Philips). Beethoven gave both the pianist and cellist a good deal to say in his sonatas, which makes the pairing of these artists a special delight. Sviatoslav Richter, 50, and Mstislav Rostropovich, 37, have been playing chamber music together for years, and each knows when to follow the other's moods and when to talk back...
...bridegroom (Brian Murray) is an intellectually bemused boy with Beethoven in his inner ear and a blue-collar father around his neck. Father (Donald Wolfit) is a deliciously unimpaired specimen of Cro-Magnon man who recalls that his father "always said that if a thing was natural, you'd see animals doing it. I've yet to see a horse reading a book...
...they were even wilder than usual. The world's only woman head of government, Mrs. Solomen West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike, who has ruled Ceylon since 1960, when her husband was assassinated, felt upset when her election speech on the government-controlled radio was followed by the playing of Beethoven's funereal "Pathétique" Sonata. The radio director responsible was sent on "compulsory leave," with no reasons given. The opposition cracked that "classical music was undoubtedly too good a sequel" to Mrs. Bandaranaike's oratory, but jittery disk jockeys began fine-combing their collections for all sorts...