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Four more shopping days 'til Christmas--and no present yet for Aunt Edna, eh? It's always the same: she can't read, hates fresh fruit, and thinks scent is sinful. You gave her a cut-glass rose vase last year and a hand-painted four-in-hand the year before. Well, how about a record for once? We've heard 'em all. Come closer; listen closely...
Even more lovely, if possible, are the voices of the Choristers of King's College, Cambridge, whose annual Christmas Eve Festival of Lessons and Carols London has also recorded (London 5523). This is the record our Aunt Edna will get, if we can bear to part with it. The simple and elegant service (the lessons are read by a chorister, a choral scholar, three fellows, the dean and the provost) and the truly remarkable carols (such as "Once in Royal David's City," and "Adam lay ybounden") combine to make this record the best of the Christmas offerings...
...then, maybe your Aunt Edna doesn't really like Christmas at all, and you'd better confine your choice to something extra cathedral. Like, perhaps, Sviatoslav Richter, three of whose recordings have recently been released by American firms. Columbia has hit upon the dubious practice of recording concert performances: Richter's Carnegie Hall recital of five Beethoven sonatas last year, and a performance in Sofia, Bulgaria of Moussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition. Mr. Richter's playing is not enchanced by an impromptu counterpoint of mid-winter colds, thumping tape-recorders, passing BMT trains (in the Carnegie Hall record...
...second thought, though, the best bet for your Aunt Edna is a multiple album it'll take her 'til Epiphany to get through: George Szell and the Cleveland orchestra have just put out what is, to our mind, the definitive recording of Schumann's Four Symphonies (Epix SC 6039/BSC 110). With them are Leon Fleischer and a sparkling performance of the Piano Concerto in A Minor, and that perfect niche-filler, the Manfred Overture. The whole is a wonderfully compact way of having the best of Schumann all to oneself...
...Edna Ferber's 1952 Texas novel, Giant, made such a searing impression on them that the evils of "ednaferberism" are still good for a diatribe from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande. Novelist Ferber gathered all the Texacana she thought she needed in a six-week visit-though, as Texans like to tell it, she merely flew across the Southwest in an airliner and sent a note to the pilot: "Please fly a little lower-I want to write a book about Texas." Author Bainbridge moved his wife and two children from their house in Bronxville, N.Y., to Dallas...