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Schumann: Quintet in E-Flat Major (The Busch Quartet with Rudolf Serkin, pianist; Columbia; 8 sides). Up-to-date sound technique and sympathetic playing make this the finest recording of Schumann's chamber-music masterpiece...
...didn't hear him till 1907, in Symphony Hall, Boston, when Rosenthal, of the stocky, powerful figure, eagle-beaked, massive-jawed, with black mane and Kaiser mustache, played the Liszt E-flat concerto, and Karl Muck leered over him on the conductor's stand, snapping the chords from the orchestra as a Mephistopheles would crack a whip over his minions, and the two played into each other's hands with a deviltry beyond words. Hah! The intrepidity, the dash, the saber and spur of it, the wild exhilaration, the reckless mastery of the whole business...
Promptly at 2 o'clock three loud knocks sounded on the west door. The ancient bolts were drawn. The portals opened. Twelve trumpeters, standing at the foot of the choir 100 yards away, split the air with a ringing E-flat chord and a fanfare...
...program, the orchestra will give: the Overture to "Le Magnifique" by Gretry; Symphony No. 1 in E-flat ("Drumroll") by Haydn; Chaconne in E-minor by Buxtehude, transcribed for orchestra by Malcolm W. Holmes, conductor of the Harvard University Orchestra; "Serenata Notturna" by Mczart; Concertino for Clarinet and Orchestra by Jan La Rue '40; and Variations on "Mary Had a Little Lamb" by Edward Ballantine, associate professor of Music...
...music itself: The program opens with organ music by Bach, the Prelude and St. Anne Fugue in E-flat, (so-called because of its similarity to a well-known hymn-tune of the same name), and two chorale preludes. The Grandjany Aria for organ, harp and orchestra, and the Fantasic for harp and organ unaccompanied, are dedicated to Mrs. Coolidge, the sponsor of the concert, and while not dazzlingly modern, are typically French in their balance and delicacy of line. The Handel Harp Concerto is number six of Handel's organ concertos. It was written specifically for harp or organ...