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...readings from Shakespeare. Listening to Johnny Desmond's recording of Bye Bye Barbara, a song about a jilted boy, he joked: "A little masochism goes a long way." He has no patience with the selling semantics of his trade, once cracked: "All this business of ffrr and FDS is just slogans, like 'It Floats,' for Ivory soap. Do you know what...
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 (the London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides). Chicagoans and other record buyers can hear what they missed a fortnight ago when the U.S. Government halted Conductor Krips at Ellis Island (TIME, July 31). Here, in the familiar "Unfinished," he displays a fine sense of pulse and dynamics, achieves a startling clarity of texture. Recording: excellent...
Bach: The Art of the Fugue (the Radio Orchestra, Beromunster, Switzerland, Herman Scherchen conducting; London FFRR, 6 sides LP). Bach died before he finished this last testament, and before he had noted down just what instrument or instruments should play it. Hence it is variously performed on the organ, by string quartet, and, as here, by a small orchestra. This performance is clear and calm, but short of vitality and vigor. Recording: excellent...
...Producer Gillis composed this, his "Symphony No. 7," in 1948 for the diamond jubilee of his alma mater. The pastoral passages have the feel of the prairie-of space and sagebrush, and there is some low-down hoedown too. The performance is good, the recording, made by London FFRR, excellent...
Mozart: Symphony No. 41, K. 551 (the London Symphony Orchestra, Josef Krips conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides LP). Vienna's Conductor Krips has a wonderful way with the pulse and pace of Mozart's operas; playing the "Jupiter" with style and finish, he shows he knows how to handle the symphonies too. Recording: excellent...