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...Chausson: Symphony in B-Flat; Chabrier: Suite Pastorale (Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray conducting; Mercury, $6.98). Bloch: Concert! Gross! Nos. 1 and 2 (Eastman-Rochester Symphony, Howard Hanson conducting; Mercury, $6.98). In the 1950s and '60s, Mercury made an impressive series of U.S. recordings ranging from the nonpareil French interpretations of Paray to the indispensable catalogue of contemporary Americans by Hanson. Many long unavailable, they are now back as part of a novel reissue program. Mercury sent the tapes to The Netherlands, where its sister company Philips provided its usual superior pressings, then shipped them back to be marketed...
...Chausson: Poem of Love and the Sea; Canteloube: Songs of the Auvergne (Soprano Victoria de los Angeles; Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra, Jean-Pierre Jacquillat conductor; Angel, $5.98). A vocal record to cherish, with De los Angeles, now 49, as ear-ravishing as ever. By the standard of the classic Madeline Grey Auvergne recording (1930), this version is a shade operatic, but in its own opulent way nonetheless irresistible. The Chausson, delicately contrasting the ephemera of love with the eternity of the sea, is a pre-Impressionistic gem, hauntingly burnished by De los Angeles, rapturously accompanied by Conductor Jacquillat...
Daniel Stepner and Jay Gottlieb, violinist and pianist, playing Schubert's Fantasia, Bartok's Unaccompanied Violin, and Chausson's Poeme. Currier SCR. 8:30, April 21. Free...
...CHAUSSON: SYMPHONY IN B FLAT MAJOR; FRANCK: LES EOLIDES (London). Ernest Chausson was a slow, self-doubting composer who shunned large undertakings, and is best known for his minor songs. The symphony form, he complained, caused him endless anxiety: "It is lively but not very much so, being somber and weighty too." His B Flat Major displays none of these characteristics. It is instead a pleasant, supple work, replete with gracefully phrased suggestions and intuitions, rather like prettified Wagner. Ernst Ansermet leads the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in an appropriately understated performance. Chausson was one of Cesar Franck...
...main interlocutor was Economist Kosygin, who apologized for Soviet failure to deliver on 1964's Franco-Russian trade agreements. Said Kosygin: "You are too expensive." Still, he offered to speed up the retarded orders, and his underlings announced only a few hours later that the French firm Chausson had received a large contract for auto bodies. The delegations rapidly agreed to establish scientific and technical cooperation (exchange of scientists and patents) and to undertake joint unmanned space projects...