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...husband, like her father before him, began directing her musical career), Ruth Slenczynska is in the midst of a powerful comeback. After one false start, she returned to concertizing six years ago, has since played more than 600 concerts in Europe and the U.S., recently recorded three LPs for Decca. With a measure of success she has risen to a measure of compassion, and though in Forbidden Childhood she condemns her father (he died six years ago) for what he was, she forgives him for what he did. Perhaps through his own fault, her father's prophecy that...
Satchmo:The Musical Autobiography of Louis Armstrong (Decca, 4 LPs). This lushly packaged, $20 salute to the most influential jazz soloist of them all traces his long career from the shouting, heavily riffed style he learned from Joe Oliver in his Chicago days (Dipper Mouth Blues, High Society) to the high, singing lyricism of the late '20s and early '30s, admirably illustrated in one of his own alltime favorites: On the Sunny Side of the Street. Most of the numbers, recorded at the end of 1956, are replays of records Louis cut between...
After Glow (Carmen McRae; Decca LP). Songstress McRae gives a torchy, slickly phrased reading to such old standbys as Nice Work If You Can Get It and My Funny Valentine, and less familiar numbers, e.g., Guess Who I Saw Today? The voice is too anemic for the big, strutting talk, but just right for the languorous, blues-flavored chitchat of a girl who has been there before...
Schumann: March No. 2, Op. 76; Waldszenen, Op. 82; Six Pieces from Fantasiestücke, Op. 12 (Sviatoslav Richter, piano; Decca). Famed Russian Pianist Richter, 42, plays with an elegant cut-crystal touch that rarely blurs even in the breakneck passages. At full volume and speed, the piano geysers a language as distinctive as it is richly hued...
...festivals and therefore easier to get at, glamour names like La Scala Orchestra and Chorus help to boost sales back home. Philips, Columbia's European affiliate, has snapped up the San Carlo Opera House in Naples, HMV-Angel has moved into Milan's La Scala and London-Decca into Florence's Teatro Co-munale. One of the busiest of all this year is Rome's cavernous Teatro dell'Opera, where RCA Victor is at work on new versions of Butterfly, Tosca, Orfeo and Lucia...