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...BEETHOVEN : TRIPLE CONCERTO IN C MAJOR FOR VIOLIN, CELLO, PIANO & ORCHESTRA (Vienna Philharmonic, Felix Weingartner conducting, with Richard Odnoposoff, Stefan Auber and Angelica Morales; Columbia: 9 sides). Second-rate Beethoven, with only fair-to-middling performance from the soloists. But the recording of this rarely performed piece will interest Beethoven enthusiasts...
...late John William Navin Sullivan was an able mathematician, a gifted and lucid interpreter of physics, a lover of music, a searcher for beauty in both music and science. A lonely and meditative man himself, he regarded Beethoven as the greatest of all musicians, Newton as the greatest of all scientists. His life of Beethoven is one of his best-known books. A few days before he died last August in Surrey, England, of disseminated sclerosis, he completed his Isaac Newton. Last week this book was published...
...greatest living pianist. At this it succeeds fairly well, though one would like to see more of Paderewski and less of the rest of the picture. Particularly interesting are close-ups of the pianist's hands, as he plays his Minuet in G, and selections from Lizst, Chopin, and Beethoven. The exquisite tone of Paderewski's music survives the sound-reproduction in only fair shape...
...plot is strictly utilitarian. On a Swedish country estate, where he is stranded when his plane crashes, Paderewski unites two estranged lovers by the "miracle" of Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata. Barbara Greene, Marie Tempest, and Charles Farrell do very well in their distinctly subsidiary parts. The picture is well worth the time for anyone at all interested in music...
...Tannhauser" Entrance of the Guests into the WartburgWagner *Scherzo from the "Eroica" Symphony, No. 3 Beethoven *Sandman's Song and Evening Prayer, from "Hansel and Gretel" Humperdinck *Seventh Slavonic Dance Dvorak *Second Hungarian Rhapsody Liszt *Pavane for a Dead Infants Ravel *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg" Wagner *Wine, Woman and Song" Waltzes Strauss *"Deep River" Arranged by Jacchia "Up the Street" March Morse *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...