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Ravel: Daphnis & Chloe Suites Nos. I & 2 (Orchestra de la Société des Concerts du Conservatoire, Charles Münch conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). Suite No. 1 has little to say that the better-known No. 2 does not say better. Recording: good...
Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Boyd Neel conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides). The English orchestra is Bach-size and plays excellently one of the most felicitous of the six Brandenburg concertos...
...hard-to-hold ear of burly Eli Oberstein, who bosses all popular records at RCA-Victor. Victor was badly in need of a girl singer to put up against such formidable competition as Columbia's Dinah Shore, Capitol's Jo Stafford, Peggy Lee and Margaret Whiting, and Decca's Evelyn Knight. Beryl has the kind of soft, low-pitched voice that climbs into a listener's lap. Oberstein, who had built up Dinah until she ran off to Columbia last year, signed Beryl, and agreed to help coach her into the U.S. big time, a complicated...
Britten: Introduction & Rondo alla Burlesca and Mazurka Elegiaca (Clifford Curzon and Benjamin Britten, pianists; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 4 sides); Serenade for Tenor, Horn & Strings (Boyd Neel String Orchestra, Benjamin Britten conducting; 6 sides). The first recordings of Britain's wonder-boy composer to reach the U.S. His two-piano music is written in a pure, archaic style reminiscent of Britain's 17th Century great, Henry Purcell, though Britten adds harmonic twists of his own. The Serenade, done in a more contemporary vein, consists of poems by Blake, Keats, Tennyson and others, set to music that is artful...
...that wasn't all. His brassy-voiced renderings of 20-year-old Jolsoniana (My Mammy, Sonny Boy, April Showers) were issued by Decca, and turned out to be the biggest selling album of all time (800,000). His single record of the Anniversary Song (from The Jolson Story) was a best-seller in the U.S. and is currently No. 1 on England's hit parade. His guest appearances on the Bing Crosby show shot it to its highest Hooper rating. A patter record he and Bing Crosby made of Alexander's Ragtime Band and The Spaniard That...