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...conversation with Sorokin requires an effort to keep up with his wit, and when he gets serious, an effort to grasp what he is talking about. For him, the best art, literature, and music was produced before the nineteenth century. Enough of a cosmopolite to prefer Bach, Beethoven, and Mozart to Tchaikovsky and Rimsky Korsakov, smoke English instead of Russian cigarettes, keep cases of French wine in his cellar instead of scotch or vodka, and obtain American citizenship in 1930, he is nevertheless simple and quiet in taste, abhorring social life and all that it entails. However, the professor continues...
...Horn, Third Horn, Principal Trombone, Rank Viola. The Rank Viola-Thomas Russell -is secretary, too busy today to play in the orchestra. He used to carry the Philharmonic cash in a little black bag, now has a bank account. Since the barnstorming began, the orchestra has played music like Beethoven's Fifth Symphony (most popular) to 150,000 people, most of whom never heard a symphony before...
...Beethoven: Missa Solemmis (Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony, with Soprano Jeannette Vreeland, Contralto Anna Kaskas, Tenor John Priebe, Basso Norman Cordon, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society; Victor; 24 sides; two volumes; $13). Beethoven, a great-souled humanitarian rather than a churchgoer, wrote his Solemn Mass for the installation of an archduke as an archbishop (he finished it three years too late). One of the greatest and most complicated of choral works it receives here a great recording-assembled from three different concert performances in Boston...
...Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 ("Eroica") in E Flat Major (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia; 12 sides; $6.50; and NBC Symphony conducted by Arturo Toscanini; Victor; 13 sides; $7). Two versions of Beethoven's heroic symphony whose original dedication to Napoleon Bonaparte was canceled because the Bonaparte pretensions displeased the composer, present the customers with a tough choice. The Walter version is warm, well-recorded the best of recent Philharmonic discs. The Toscanini job is full of Beethoven's energy, but the recording-taken from a radio performance-sounds boxy...
Well, the much-heralded, long-awaited recording of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis is out at last, (Victor, two volumes, Albums M758 & M759), and it is with regret that I report it to be an enormous disappointment. Granted the extreme difficulties posed by a choral work, nothing can justify the arrogant carelessness of a recording which, for all intents and purposes, has been thrown together without the slightest pains taken either in actual recording or in subsequent manufacture. Nothing indicates that the engineers who made the recording attended any rehearsals or had done any experimenting beforehand. The result of bad placing...