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...Cambridge is concerned, two of the Square's music shops are already selling unusual foreign records in limited quantities, and the flow is expected to increase. Briggs and Briggs has on hand a few copies of some Cetra (Italian) releases and is daily expecting a shipment of HMV discs; McKenna's has already received 1000 HMV records, including such choice items as the Schnabel Beethoven Sonata Society sets, the Fischer recordings of the Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, and songs from the Wintereisse sung by Gerhard Husch; and both of the stores have the Polydor version of the Missa Solemnjs...
While the English discs are exceptionally worth-while from any musical standpoint, it is the two Cetra releases currently available at Briggs which are the most unusual and striking in their contrast to the ordinary American clasical product...
...sets is the Mozart Requiem Mass, a work which despite its important position in the composer's creations and among all the works in the Mass form has been available heretofore only in an inferior and abridged Victor version by the Pennsylvania Bach Choir. In this Cetra recording of the Requiem a superb orchestra and tremendous chorus combines with such soloists as Ferrucio Tagliavini, thrilling young tenor who will soon appear with the Met, to produce an effect altogether superior to that of the American set. Particularly outstanding is the recording technique: the more than 120 voices and oversized orchestra...
...supplement for Yeoman Brill, I have been invited to corral letters, words, sentences, paragraphs, et cetra and formulate them so they will fabricate this week's column, Hence, I find my self poised over the typewriter with word baited fingers about to race (did I say race or erase) over the key-board to bring to the readers of this column a few seeds of humor which, I pray, may blossom into a smile or perhaps a laugh. If this should occur to but one reader, my journalistic effort will not be in vain...