Word: beethovens
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Beethoven: Sonatas...
...Recorded in M.I.T.'s new Kresge Auditorium (TIME, Dec. 26), records in this series are hard to beat for sheer aural excitement. Roger Voisin and the remarkable brasses of the Boston Symphony add a dimension of rare virtuosity to four modern works in The Modern Age of Brass. Beethoven Piano Sonatas (Op. 109, 110) make the instrument sound iridescent and almost inhumanly-clear, which is as it should be, and Ernest Levy's performance has the ring of truth...
...Glenn Gould; Columbia). Young triple-threat (composer, conductor, pianist) Musician Gould again displays his phenomenal ability to make the piano talk. He indulges his youthful exuberance, which results in some spectacular speed but also-at least in this late Beethoven-gives the impression of skimming the surface...
...help dealers buy materials. Says RCA Vice President Lawrence Kanaga: "Gone are the days when the record shop was like a library where a customer really had to know his music. We're changing it into a supermarket where a buyer does not have to worry about mispronouncing Beethoven...
French-born Conductor Charles Munch, his thick, white hair flying in the musical breeze, led his crew through Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony, Walter Piston's Sixth, and, in a specialty that every Munchian audience outside Russia has heard and heard again, Ravel's Daphnis and Chloe, Suite No. 2. At the end, the crowd let loose an eight-minute tumult, only stopped temporarily when the orchestra went into a rare encore-Dukas' Sorcerer's Apprentice. Said a leading Russian fiddler: "It's the greatest orchestra in the world...