Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major (Saxon State Orchestra, Karl Bohm conducting, with Walter Gieseking; Columbia: 8 sides). But for the still-smoldering fire of two grand old men of pianism (Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff) French-born, 44-year-old Walter Gieseking would be ranked by most connoisseurs as today's No. i pianist. Here Pianist Gieseking gives Beethoven's most lyric piano concerto its finest recording to date...
...kind eyes and a soft heart. When he returned to Chicago with his recordings, so depressed would he feel about the underprivileged folk among whom he traveled that it would take two or three nights listening to the Civic Opera before he felt right again. For Mr. Kapp understood Beethoven as well as 3-woogie...
Edison the Man is a faithful, even reverent attempt to immortalize the Edison story on film. But like most posthumous at tempts to recreate the creative moments of great men - Beethoven scoring the Seventh Symphony while romping through a thunderstorm, Schubert conceiving the Unfinished Symphony because of heartbreak over a Hungarian minx - Edison's fine frenzies remain, with the past, unrecapturable...
...records (made by RCA Victor), of standard works by Bach. Beethoven, Schubert, etc., were competently but anonymously performed. The idea, and the same albums, spread to Washington, whence a National Committee for Music Appreciation spread it to other cities (TIME, July 3). By last week the records, now priced at $1.49 to $1.98, were still going great guns. In 50 cities an estimated 1,000,000 discs had been distributed, usually through newspapers, which got nothing from the deal except good will. In Indiana and Texas the record-selling was conducted as a State program. The National Committee swears that...
...days life for St. Petersburg's upper crust was a wild melee of tempestuous music and passionate romance. From these Director Dreville has compounded "Kreutzer Sonata." As in Tolstoy's story the characters are carefree debauchees who tinkle champagne glasses to Beethoven's music. Thus Jean Yonnel, as Dimitri Pozdnycheff the irrestible rake, makes eyes at his creditor's wife while that gentleman removes the furniture, and reforms by going home to make love to the country lasses. American tabloid readers can fill in the rest of the plot: true love, questioned virtue, and a scheming horse-faced violinist...