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...Beethoven: opus 125 (Ninth Symphony) at 53; the great string Quartets...
...Beethoven: Sonata No. 7 in C Minor (Yehudi Menuhin, violin; Hephzibah Menuhin, piano; Victor, 8 sides). The first 5,000 of these albums were erroneously labeled Sonata No. 2; red-faced Victor is now trying to correct its wrong red labels. Under either label it is the Seventh, and an agile brother & sister act. Performance: excellent...
...symphonist, Dmitri Shostakovich was now up to Beethoven-in quantity.* Last week his new Ninth Symphony was tried out in Moscow, in the manner the U.S.S.R. now decrees: at a private hearing of musicians...
...trilogy which began with the brassy, repetitious Seventh ("Leningrad"). It has an unorthodox five instead of four movements, but is shorter (25 minutes) than most symphonies. Shostakovich, who wrote it in ten weeks after three false starts, was afraid his frail little Ninth would not stand up against Beethoven's great Ninth ("a frightening responsibility") or the critics. "They'll say, 'We expected something grandiose from you and you are giving us a lark.' " Reported Robert Magidoff of NBC, who heard it: "sensitive, playful and irresistible...
Canadian soldiers on leave joined the Dutch in singing Wilhelmus, the national anthem which the Germans banned in 1940, then listened to Beethoven, Debussy and Tschaikovsky conducted by 44-year-old stocky, handsome Alexander Van Beinum, formerly an assistant conductor...