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Strauss: Don Quixote (Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy conducting, with Cellist Emanuel Feuermann; Victor; 10 sides; $5.50). In this tone-poem the Don is a cello, and the adventures are complete down to the last bleat (muted brass) of the sheep he fancies are an army. The Philadelphians and the soloist do a top-notch...
Bloch: Schelomo (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with Leopold Stokowski conducting the Philadelphia Orchestra; Victor: 5 sides). In Schelomo (Hebrew for Solomon), musical Zionist Ernest Bloch rhapsodizes and wails, perhaps of worldly vanities, perhaps of breasts like roes and necks like ivory: there is no descriptive program. Cellist Feuermann plays eloquently...
Schubert: Sonata in A Minor (Emanuel Feuermann, cellist; Columbia: 5 sides). In Schubert's rather discursive sonata for cello and piano, Cellist Feuermann proves himself the world's No. 2 cellist, a close second to Cellist Casals...
...Emanuel Feuermann (Sun. 2 p. m., NBC-Blue), famed cellist, is guest soloist on RCA's Magic Key program...
...Cellist Feuermann, born in a family of musicians at Kolomea, Galicia, started to play the cello at the age of seven, played it in concerts at eleven, and at 16 taught it as a professor at the Cologne Conservatory. Ousted by Nazis from his position as teacher in Berlin's Hochschule für Musik in 1933, he embarked on two world tours, was nailed on four continents as one of the greatest living virtuosos. While traveling, Cellist Feuermann never lets his $30,000 Stradivarius cello out of his sight, always buys an extra berth for it when forced...