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...Benno Moiseiwitsch, 65, appears in Carnegie Hall to play a program of piano classics (Bach-Liszt, Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Benno Moiseiwitsch; Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent; Victor). One of the new, low-priced "Bluebird Classics," Victor's answer to the increasingly successful cut-rate labels. There are no program notes, but the performance is excellent, and there is little sacrifice in the quality of recorded sound...
Other noteworthy new releases: Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Magnificat (Vienna State Opera Orchestra) ; Akademie Choir and soloists conducted by Felix Prohaska; Bach Guild, 2 LPs); Conrad Beck: Viola Concerto (Walter Kagi; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jean Meylan; London); Beethoven: "Kreutzer" Sonata (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Benno Moïséiwitsch, piano; Victor...
...goer begins after a month or so to be visited by an uneasy feeling that this is where he came in. This tendency toward repetition is fostered by the English musicians, many of them known only locally, who get a fixed program of works and then stick to them: Benno Moisewitch, for example, has been playing the Rachmaninoff concerti almost ad nauseum, and Solomon has long had a fixation on the Emperor Concerte...
Cruelty. In Holland, a collector of potato peels named his ass Benno - the Dutch for Benito. A Nazi paper demanded action by the S.P.C.A...