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...Prokoieff's acute sense for the bizarre. Originally written as a ballet, its frenzied turbulence made it unsuited to that form. The Suite is Prokoieff's first work of any major importance and its lack of profundity puts it within the reach of the somewhat limited capabilities of Desire Defauw and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, but even the technical difficulties are sometimes too great for them. Recording is poor...
...Chicago Symphony Orchestra's white-haired, Belgian-born Désiré Defauw last week picked ten pieces of music which would give the layman "the most comprehensive basis [for] the enjoyment of all music." His list...
...taken by another little white-haired maestro, this time one unfamiliar to U. S. audiences. The new maestro, who had just defied bombs and mines on the S. S. Vulcama, for his chance to conduct the NBCers, was Belgium's No. i Conductor Désiré Defauw (pronounced Defoe). Driving the orchestra at top speed, with its cut-out open, through a broadcast of light French and Belgian pieces, Maestro Defauw left a few loose bolts & nuts by the wayside. But as he zoomed across the finish line the audience in buff-walled Studio 8-H broke into...
Bach's Suite No. 3 in D by Désiré Defauw and the Orchestra of the Brussels Royal Conservatory (Columbia, $6)-A vigorous, forthright reading of Bach's most popular orchestral suite. A sombre Corelli saraband is played by Enrique Fernandez Arbós and the Madrid Symphony as filler for the last record...