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Such an album is the new recording of the Beethoven Fifth Symphony on Victor Records by Arturo Toscanini and the National Broadcasting Symphony Orchestra...
...record salesman, any music store clerk can tell you that the Beethoven Fifth Symphony is exceeded only by the Tschaikovsky "Nutcracker Suite" and a few others in public knowledge and esteem. The "Fifth" is probably the best known of the so-called "heavier" classical works. The four notes which announce the first theme of the symphony are as familiar to the general public as any other (not excepting "Our Love" and "Moon Love...
...names "Beethoven," "Fifth" and "Toscanini" were enough to sell the album eight unseen (and surface unheard...
...what happened when you listened to this album of super-synthesis? Quite frankly, throughout the time I have been listening to record I have never heard a rendition of Beethoven that I considered to be as inadequate as this one. As a matter of fact, I can remember few recorded versions of anything that struck me as being so completely shallow and without not only comprehension of what the composer wanted, but what could be done with the score itself. Leopold Stokowski is often accused (and Justly so) of rendering Bach in a manner quite unlike what the composed intended...
...generation Manhattan-born Sculptor Jacob Epstein has loved living in London and shocking the British. Last summer he shocked them again with Adam, a seven-foot ape man, chiseled out of a three-ton chunk of pink alabaster while Jacob Epstein listened to Ludwig van Beethoven for inspiration. Critics called it "a biologist's nightmare," but an Australian gold miner bought it for $35,000. As a side show at Blackpool on the Irish Sea, Adam grossed $250,000 from a million vacation gawkers...