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...talent to appear in England since Sir Thomas himself rose to fame. He is not a spectator's conductor. A solidly built, shock-haired man with a Mozartean profile, he conducts spiritedly but has none of the balletic exuberance of Bernstein or the smooth elegance of Sir Adrian Boult or the icily imperious quality of Reiner. Nor are his performances flamboyantly colored: where Beecham's Mozart tends to be effusively loving, Davis' is simple end unaffected. He combines grace with precision, gravity with rhythmic bite...
Handel: Acis & Galatea (Joan Sutherland, Peter Pears, Owen Brannigan, David Galliver; Philomusica of London with the St. Anthony Singers, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; London). A slightly cut version of the masque that became the most popular of Handel's works in his own lifetime. The score is fresh and frothy, the choral numbers a wonder of vocal crosshatching, and the performance controlled and clear. Soprano Sutherland trills her lines with transparent ease...
...BATON FOR THE CONDUCTOR (219 pp.)-T. L W. Hubbard-Houghfon Mifflin ($3). ] "You see," the young man told the psychiatrist, "[my uncle] began as Sir Henry Wood. Then he passed through a Beecham phase, a Boult phase and a Sargent phase . . . After that [he] began adding new tricks with each conductor he studied...
...Sonatas, played with unbeatable fire and insight by the late great Artur Schnabel. London completed its own releases of the same series by 70-year-old Wilhelm Backhaus, as well as all seven Symphonies by British Composer Ralph Vaughan Williams with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Columbia packaged most of the Orchestral Music of Brahms (four records), lovingly played by the Philharmonic-Symphony under Bruno Walter, and all the Beethoven Cello Sonatas (three records), masterfully played by Pablo Casals and Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
Hollywood Bowl Concert (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). With Guest Conductor Sir Adrian Boult and Soloists Eleanor Steber and Jan Peerce...