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DELIUS: PIANO CONCERTO (Decca). As a young man, Delius weny out from England to spend a year managing his father's plantation in Florida, and snatches of Negro spirituals seem to echo in the dreamy sequences of his only piano concerto. Playing with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra under William Strickland, Marjorie Mitchell gives a full-blooded performance of the seldom-heard romantic work...
...Robert Preston cannot keep this recording of the musical adaptation of The Fourposter from sounding like a commercial for twin beds ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (RCA Victor) his original-cast album of the 1966 Lincoln Center revival compares favorably with original version of 20 years ago (still available on Decca). Ethel Merman's voice may have lost a little of its spring, but it still isn't rusty, and the high-caliber orchestra of the Victor recording makes the Decca sound like a pop pistol...
Everyone agreed that it was a jolly good success, and Dr. Bowes, who hopes to release the recording through Britain's Decca record company if the quality is good enough, celebrated by buying a Rolls-Royce for $15,800 to "run around England in." Jack Greene-stone, the orchestra manager who arranged the session, was left nursing a new pent-up urge. Mused he: "I'll wager there are a lot of wealthy Americans who would like to conduct a symphony. It could become the new In Christmas present to give your friends -your own Beethoven...
...GOLDEN YEARS (Decca). It seems incredible that Brenda Lee has been atop the subteen heap for ten years, but here's the anniversary album to bear witness. Now 21, Brenda simply won't gwow...
...cartridges for his car, he will want to play them in his living room as well. Thus, the companies estimate that stereo cartridges will surpass today's sales of records within a few years. RCA Victor has so far sold 1,500,000 cartridges, and Columbia, Mercury, Decca and Capitol have recently brought out their eight-track-cartridge lines...