Word: concertgebouw
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Five years ago Nazis purged Amsterdam's world-famed Concertgebouw Orchestra of 18 Jewish members, packed them off to a Czechoslovakian concentration camp. Last week 15 of the 18 Jewish musicians were back in their chairs for the symphony's first concert since the liberation...
Tchaikovsky's Romeo and Juliet by Conductor Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $4)-Toscanini would scorn playing this popular love music inspired by Tchaikovsky's unrequited passion for a French singing actress. Mengelberg and his home orchestra give it a glowing performance...
...Paris Conservatory Orchestra (Columbia, 2 records, $2 ea.)?In three parts, this glittering, skirling fantasia fully reveals the mind which created Macbeth-like Boris Godounov. Bizet's Adagietto from L'Arlésienne Suite, on the back of the second disc, recorded by Willem Mengelberg and Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam...
Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony by Willem Mengelberg and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra (Columbia, $10) ?Tchaikovsky dedicated this symphony to Nadezhda Filaretovna von Meck, the wealthy widow of a railroad engineer, who for years supported him without ever meeting him. Conductor Mengelberg's touch is deft and powerful, far transcends any of his recent performances with Man- Manhattan's Philharmonic...
Manhattan thinks well of Willem Mengelberg. In Holland, where he is conductor of the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, he is a great man, travels on a diplomatic passport, is the pet ambassador of goodwill. With the Philharmonic he has established himself as a careful, conscientious leader with a fine flair for effects and fire enough to achieve them. His Wagner is weak as are most of his operatic undertakings but his classics, especially the German, are excellent, his Strauss supreme. He ranks high with the world's great conductors; not so high, however, as to be included in the lobby debates...