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...ability for composing" either, Zabaleta decided that he must uncover music written for the harp rather than resort to arrangements. For a year and a half he searched the libraries of Europe, turned up some surprising finds, e.g., harp music by one of Bach's sons, by Beethoven, Handel and Faure, as well as by early Spanish and French composers. That still left one gap: the moderns. To fill it, Zabaleta began badgering living composers to write for the harp. So far, six concertos have been dedicated to him, including compositions by Milhaud and Villa-Lobos...
...more severe tastes, the Soviets also sent a young violinist named Igor Oistrakh. He played Beethoven's Violin Concerto with the London Philharmonic, and the critics approved to a man. The Times was relatively reserved, praising his "artistic integrity and surety of execution." The Daily Express' Cecil Smith, usually a hard man to please, went overboard: "Not since the piano playing of the 23-year-old Horowitz burst on Western ears 25 years ago has Russia given us so staggeringly gifted a young musician...
...offering its first imports this week. Among them: Ravel's Concerto in G, played by Pianist Marguerite Long (to whom Ravel dedicated it) and the Paris Conservatory Orchestra, the Bartok Concerto for Orchestra, played by London's crack Philharmonia Orchestra under Herbert von Karajan, and four Beethoven sonatas, played by Pianist Walter Gieseking...
...Epic label will bring to the U.S. another strong European catalogue controlled by Philips of The Netherlands. Unlike Angel, which is importing finished recordings, Epic imports master tapes, manufactures its records in the U.S. Epic's first releases concentrate on such symphonic war horses as Beethoven's Fifth, Schubert's Unfinished and Tchaikovsky's Pathetique, in performances by such orchestras as Amsterdam's Concertgebouw, The Hague and Berlin Philharmonics...
Other noteworthy new releases: Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 (Paul Paray and the Detroit Symphony; Mercury); Falla's one-act opera, Master Peter's Puppet Show (F. Charles Adler conducting the Vienna Philharmonia; SPA); Great Arias from Bach's Cantatas (Hildegarde Rossl-Majdan and Hugues Cuenod; Bach Guild...