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BERLIOZ: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (Philips, 3 LPs). Conductor Colin Davis' exemplary latest chapter in the resurrection of Hector Berlioz...
SANDERS THEATER. Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum, F. John Adams, conductor. Music of the Renaissance and of Bruckner. Tickets: $3-$1.50. Friday, November...
HOLMES HALL. Radcliffe Chamber Orchestra, David Evans, conductor. Mozart: Piano Concertos K. 271 and K. 295 (Paul Rosenbloom, soloist). Free. sunday, December...
Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (Cleveland Orchestra, Lorin Maazel, conductor; London; 3 LPs; $17.94. London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn, conductor; Angel; 3 LPs; $17.98). A typical instance of how the classical record industry can drive its customers berserk and eat up its own profits. The complete version of this score has been almost totally neglected since the LP's birth 25 years ago; now come two competing versions. Ah, free enterprise! Both sets manage to confirm that this is the finest evening-length ballet score since Tchaikovsky. Neither, as it happens, quite equals the poetry and passion of Charles Munch...
Puccini: La Bohème (Mirella Freni, Luciano Pavarotti, Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, conductor; London; 2 LPs; $11.96). The LP era has had three recordings of Bohème good enough to be called great. The first two were the Toscanini (with Licia Albanese and Jan Peerce as Mimi and Rodolfo) and the Beecham (Victoria de los Angeles and Jussi Bjoerling), both still available in low-priced reissues. Here is the third, with the unpredictable Karajan sculpting the orchestral part with an irresistible flow befitting the Toscanini approach and a touching songfulness that Beecham might have applauded. The bella...