Word: cellistic
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Saint-Saëns: Carnival of the Animals (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski, with Cellist Benar Heifetz, Pianists Jeanne Behrend and Sylvan Levin; Victor; 6 sides; $3.50). Slick virtuoso performance of banal zoological portraits-elephants, cuckoos, tortoises, pianists, critics, the famed "dying" swan...
Mendelssohn: Capriccio Brillant (Joanna Graudan, pianist, with the Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Dmitri Mitropoulos; Columbia; 3 sides; $2.50). Pre-Victorian showpiece, faded but not without charm, brilliantly played by the Latvian-born wife of the orchestra's first cellist. On the fourth side, an elegant minuet from Lully's The Temple of Peace...
South American Chamber Music (Soprano Olga Averino, Violinist Alfredo St Malo, Cellist Fritz Magg, Pianist-Arranger Nicolas Slonimsky; Columbia: 8 sides-$4.50). Proving that Brazil's Villa-Lobos is not the sole South American composer of well-made songs, dances, Parisian-sounding salon pieces. Others: Brazil's Fernandez and Mignone, Uruguay's Pedrell and Broqua, Argentina's Ficher, Chile's Santa Cruz, Peru's Sas, Colombia's Uribe-Holguin...
...finest string quartets in the world-the Pro Arte. This quartet still calls Brussels its home, but only in a far, faint voice. Its members: Spanish First Fiddler Antonio Brosa, 44; Belgian Second Fiddler Laurent Halleux, 43; Belgian Violist Germain Prévost, 49; British Cellist Warwick Evans, 56. It took the Pro Arte men four hours to plow from Chicago to Watertown, and once, in a bad skid, M. Prevost's $5,000 viola nearly went through the window. By the time the quartet reached Watertown High School, 700 youngsters, who had stayed after school to hear them...
Strauss: Don Quixote (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 10 sides; $5.50). In this tone-poem the Don is a cello, and the adventures are complete down to the last bleat (muted brass) of the sheep he fancies are an army. The Philadelphians and the soloist do a top-notch...