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...Handel organ concerto, is to me one of the seven wonders. In the latest in the Victor series of Handel organ concertos, the Cuckoo and the Nightingale Concerto, Album M733 he plays most delightfully on the Baroque organ of the Germanic Museum to a spirited accompaniment by Arthur Fiedler's Sinfonietta. The concerto itself is a delightful one, and the whole album as successful a combination of Biggs, Victor, and Handel, as has yet appeared....Anyone who is revolted, as I am, by Stokowski's lurid transcriptions and feverish performances of Bach may be glad to hear that there...
Morton Gould: Foster Gallery (Boston "Pops" Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50). One of radio's bright boys, 27-year-old Composer Gould, gives Stephen Foster tunes a harmonic whirl, leaves Susanna and Jeanie with a light black eye. But good...
...favorites, including the dream music, on Columbia Records, and if I were to get any synthesis of any opera, this would be it. But the prize orchestral recording of the Christmas season is that of Gaetano Schiassi's beautiful. Christmas Symphony, superbly done on a Victor Record by Arthur Fiedler and the Boston Pops orchestra. Schiassi's style may remind you of Corelli, which it should, containing as it does the same simplicity of material, restrained handling, and melodic beauty...
...Boston Pops Concerts, which, under Mr. Fiedler's lively baton, carries on nightly with overtures, semi-classical favorites, and light tone-poems. The audience listens lightly and lolls around tables guzzling beers. Tonight Mr. Fiedler's gentleman present their standard gourmand's fare. Music like Gershwin's "Rhapsody in Blue," interesting harmonically but otherwise dull, the Brahms Fifth Hungarian Dance, and the unbreakable Blue Danube Waltz, are there for those who can still bear them. Of greater relish is the delightful fantasy "Fugue and Variations on Under the Spreading Chestnut-Tree" by Weinberger, one of the sensations of the past...
Walter Piston: Suite From the Incredible Flutist (Boston "Pops" Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler conducting; Victor: four sides). Newly thawed from the Kulturbolschewist morgue, Harvard's Composer Piston kicks up his heels in one of the deftest, most scintillant ballet scores ever penned by a U. S. composer...