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Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra (Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury). The fourth LP of a contemporary classic, this version has the distinction of dazzlingly clear and closeup sound, presumably authentic interpretation by one of Bartok's pupils and performance by a fine orchestra...
Copland: Symphony No. 3 (Minneapolis Symphony conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury). A major work by a man who has done as much as anybody to establish a modern American style of concert music. The symphony is broadly conceived, includes a bubbling scherzo, and, by use of spacious, interwoven patterns, manages to give the effect of melody without ever quite stating...
...Coriolanus Overtures (Joseph Keilberth conducting the Berlin Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony Orchestras; Capitol-Telefunken); Liszt: Spanish Rhapsody (Miklos Schwalb; Academy); Mozart: Requiem (Hilde Gueden, Rosette Anday, Julius Patzak, Josef Greindl, Salzburg Dome Choir; Mozarteum Orchestra conducted by Josef Messner; Remington); Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade (Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra conducted by Antal Dorati; Mercury) ; Schubert: A Song Recital (Herman Schey, bass-baritone; Poly music); Tchaikovsky: "Pathétique" Symphony (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy...
French Orchestral Masterworks (Minneapolis Symphony, Antal Dorati conducting; Mercury). Ravel's Pavane Pour une Infante Défunte and Debussy's Three Nocturnes receive clean, vigorous performances that are a shade too sturdy for their moods of fragile classicism and vaporous impressionism; the orchestra sounds fine in Berlioz' Roman Carnival Overture. Recording: realistic, with a wide range of volume...
Kodaly: Psalmus Hungaricus (Gabor Carelli, tenor; North Texas State College Chorus, Dallas Children's Choir, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati conducting; Victor, 6 sides, 45 r.p.m.). Composed in 1923 to mark the soth anniversary of the union of the twin cities of Buda and Pest, this is probably 67-year-old Zoltan Kodaly's best work; in it is some of the most brilliant choral writing of the century. Performance and recording: excellent...