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...Tannhauser," Entrance of the Guests into the WarburgWagner *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 *Prelude to "Die Meistersinger von Nurnbert" Wagner *Pavane for a Dead Infanta Ravel *"Wine, Woman, and Song," Waltzes Stranss *"Deep Rive" Arranged by Jacchia *"Up the Street," March Morse *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...through a Chopin Polonaise and Liszt's Second Hungarian Rhapsody, the camera returns again & again to watch his forceful hands. When he has finished, a small child scampers up to him, followed by her parents. He greets them, agrees to play as an encore the first movement of Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata. Later, over the brandies, one of those inevitable cough & spit drawing-room pundits quizzes the old maestro on what seemed to him an extraordinary departure from concert-hall form-playing the Sonata as an encore. Quietly. Paderewski starts to explain what the Sonata has meant...
...Marche MilitaireSchubert *Overture to "Edmont" Beethoven *Liebestraum Liszt-Herbert *"Aida" Fantasia Verdi Austrian Peasant Dancers Schonherr *Meditation from "Thais" Massenet *Bolero Ravel *"By the Beautiful Blue Danube," Waltzes Strauss *"Night and Day" Porter *American Patrol Meacham *Selections checked (*) are available on records at Briggs & Briggs Music Store, Harvard Square...
...many years Cambridge Professor Edward J. Dent; one of England's most eminent critics and musical biographers, has brooded over the problem of translating operatic texts into sensible, singable English. Published recently were his translations of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, The Magic Flute and Beethoven's Fidelio. Where a hitherto much-used 1850 translation of Don Giovanni reads...
...BEETHOVEN: AH, PERFIDO! (Philadelphia Orchestra with Kirsten Flagstad; Eugene Ormandy conducting; Victor: 4 parts). Today's No. 1 operatic voice is more perfectly suited to Wagnerian declamation, but the recording engineers have done magnificently...