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...major works as Arnold Schoenberg's Serenade and, more recently, Pierre Boulez's Le Marteau sans Maître have been serial compositions. Indeed no one has championed serialism more than has Boulez, the onetime enfant terrible of French music who is now the 47-year-old conductor of the New York Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony. Yet there was Boulez in Manhattan last week introducing his new 31-minute composition . . . explosante/fixe . . . and conceding that it had little to do with serialism. Moreover, the work includes the very electronics that Boulez has scorned volubly since his own youthful...
BERLIOZ: BENVENUTO CELLINI (Philips, 4 LPs). Berlioz's first opera is deeply poetic, grandly exuberant and stunningly performed under Conductor Colin Davis...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 8 (London, 2 LPs). Conductor Georg Solti triumphs in a work that, in emotional scope and array of forces, is a most difficult challenge to recording...
ROSSINI: LA CENERENTOLA (DG, 3 LPs). From Conductor Claudio Abbado comes a stereo recording worthy of Rossini's comic masterpiece...
STRAVINSKY: PETRUSHKA (Columbia). Conductor Pierre Boulez at his and the composer's best...