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Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major (Saxonian State Orchestra, conducted by Karl Bohm; Victor; 18 sides in two volumes; $10). Devout, naive-he gratefully tipped Conductor Hans Richter one thaler (71?) after the first performance of his fourth symphony-Composer Anton Bruckner wrote some of the most prolix symphonies in history. Dresden's orchestra, one of Europe's finest, gives Bruckner's long melodies a fine recording, the only one now available...
Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 4 in G Major (Saxon State Orchestra, Karl Bohm conducting, with Walter Gieseking; Columbia: 8 sides). But for the still-smoldering fire of two grand old men of pianism (Josef Hofmann and Sergei Rachmaninoff) French-born, 44-year-old Walter Gieseking would be ranked by most connoisseurs as today's No. i pianist. Here Pianist Gieseking gives Beethoven's most lyric piano concerto its finest recording to date...
Wagner: Die Meistersinger, Act 3 (Saxon State Orchestra, Dresden State Opera chorus, Karl Bohm conducting, with Hans Hermann Nissen, Torsten Ralf, Margarete Teschemacher and other singers; Victor: 2 volumes, 30 sides). Superb singing, perfect teamwork, and the latest touches in crystal-clear recording, make this complete and bulky last act of Wagner's great comic opera the record of the year...
...opened by "Harmonics", a skit by Charles L. Whipple '35 Next on the program is "Dinner at Six-thirty", another skit, by Robert L.C. Rein'l '34. Accompanied by Edwin B. Marshall '34 at the piano, Richard B. Carloton '34 will play two xylophone solos, "Gypsy Mazurka" by Bohm, and "Chanson sans Paroles," by Tschaikowski. The program will be concluded by "Adams House Assizes, Michaelmas Sitting", presented by the Law School members of the House...
...Culture, whose representatives seemed greatly impressed by their visit to the excavations at Homolka, has been interested and helpful. The work of the expedition has been carried on with the co-operation, and under the auspices of, the State Archaeological Institute of Czechoslovakia, of which Dr. Buchtela and Dr. Bohm are the directors; without their whole-hearted support nothing could have been accomplished. The keen interest of the National Museum, the Slavie Institute, and the Anthropological Institute, all of Prague, also has been of great service. Professor Stocky of Charles University has several times visited Homolka with his students...