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...years, Slonimsky has amused himself by collecting the world's most angry comments about music since the days of Beethoven. This week he published nearly 300 pages of them in his Lexicon of Musical Invective (Coleman-Ross...
...want to fill a concert hall," wrote Furtwängler, who does most of his conducting in Germany nowadays, "it is more than ever the works of Tchaikovsky and Beethoven that you must play. A work by Debussy sends the box-office receipts down, and ... a poster which displays nothing but the names of living composers is a sure promise of an empty concert hall . . . There must be a reason...
Furtwängler's notion of the reason: "Tonal music [i.e., the music of the classics, from Beethoven to Home Sweet Home] meets certain deep-rooted biological requirements in human nature...
...opportunity to display her considerable technical powers. Despite the composer's maddening instructions ("As fast as possible," he demands at one point in the Rondo, and, a few measures afterwards, "still faster"), the sudden fortissimo outbursts, fast octave scales, and other bravura passages rattled along without mishap. And while Beethoven's Twelve Variations on a Russian Dance Tune may lack profundity and grandeur, they are good, clean fun and Miss Drooker made the most of them. Her elastic, but consistent phrasing gave logic to the variations, without binding them in a formalistic straightjacket...
Other new releases: Nine Beethoven bympnomes (Victor), with Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony (hand somely packaged at $52.40); Bach and Handel Arias (London), sung by Contralto Kathleen Ferrier with the London Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé-Complete Ballet (London), with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Geneva Motet Choir conducted by Ernest Ansermet...