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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vocal REGINA RESNIK: FRENCH, GERMAN, SPANISH AND RUSSIAN SONGS (Epic). Great singers never rely on vocal beauty alone, for they know that they must combine drama and music in almost equal parts. Regina Resnik's vocal stagecraft is nearly unexcelled. This disk offers a variety of songs, each a sharp, clear miniature of a thought, a mood or a conflict. Bronx-born Resnik employs her practical intelligence, her personal flair and her firmly controlled mezzo throughout the recording. But she is most effective when her Russian ancestry boils to the surface in a gloomy Prokofiev work. The Pillars, which...
...fair indication of Fischer-Dieskau's tal ent. He is a meticulous singer who never sloughs off a nuance or fuzzes an accent. Though his baritone is aptly described as dry rather than warm, he has range and power to spare. Lieder are his forte, but this disk demonstrates a thoroughgoing comprehension of opera as well...
...CORELLI: GRANADA AND OTHER ROMANTIC SONGS (Capitol). Corelli uses his miraculous equipment unstintingly. He never underestimates the power of a note, especially a high C that he can hold until even his listeners feel short of oxygen. His powerful dark tenor nearly steamrollers the modest little songs on this disk; few of them justify the fervor with which he belts them...
...other side of the new disk urges activism of a different sort. Hey Jude, sung by Paul McCartney, liltingly exhorts a friend to overcome his fears and commit himself in love...
...part of the first package of releases by the Beatles' new company, Apple Corps Ltd. The firm was organized earlier this year to coordinate the group's multiplying business enterprises, which include films, television, music publishing and electronics. The specific mission assigned to the Apple disk label was not only to record the Beatles, but also to enable them to promote new talent. As John Lennon put it last spring, "We want to give people the kind of freedom that we would've liked when we first started recording...