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Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Eugenia Zareska, contralto, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 4 sides). A good place to start piercing some of the more heavily veiled mysteries of Mahler. The London Philharmonic is led by Amsterdam's highly capable Conductor van Beinum. Recording: good...
Berlioz: Fantastic Symphony (Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; English Decca, 12 sides). Berlioz' blend of bombast and beauty is hard to resist in the performance of this great Amsterdam orchestra. Recording: excellent...
That night, in huge Usher Hall, which looks like a railway station, the first of 40 orchestral concerts burst into life under the talented baton of Eduard van Beinum (TIME, April 12). Next night Amsterdam's famed Concertgebouw Orchestra was led by France's silver-haired Charles Münch (Koussevitzky's heir in Boston...
...Beinum, a man who likes his Bartók as well as his Bach, doesn't let the famous orchestra show its years in its programming. The Concertgebouw gives contemporary Dutch and U.S. composers frequent hearings; last month, it brought out the first recording of a concert suite from Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes (TIME, April...
...Beinum plans to fly the Concertgebouw on its first trip to the U.S. next year. One American who knows a lot about orchestras has already given his verdict on Amsterdam's. Said Leopold Stokowski, after guest-conducting the Concertgebouw last year: "A superb instrument...