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...first four Sauter-Finegan recordings have an enlarged percussion section (xylophone, bells, kettledrums, etc.). But each side has a definite mood of its own: Rain sizzles like a summer shower on a slate roof; Azure-Te hits a melancholy note with a low, liquid flute sound (played on a recorder); Stop! Sit Down! Relax...
Martinu: Sonata for Piano and Flute (George Reeves and Rene Le Roy; EMS, 1 side LP). Melodic inspiration (vintage 1945) and superior performances make this attractive listening. The more astringent Martinu - and some spectacular pianism-are on the other side, where Charles Rosen plays five short studies and polkas and a longer work, Les Ritournelles. Recording: good...
Mandelbaum's Flute Sonata received the outstanding performance of the evening. Suzanne Heckman and accompanist Ann Besser played with warmth and ease. The third movement, a gay vivace, received an especially spirited reading. The music itself is essentially jyrical, without being discursive. The composer's style is contemporary but not needlessly dissonant, and he a voids nearly all of the melodic and harmonic cliches...
...ended her program with works by de Falla and Ravel. Although less at home in these exotic pieces than in the earlier Russian selections, she still sang them with provocative feeling. I especially enjoyed her seemingly effortless rendition of Ravel's evanescent La Flute Enchantee...
...Moderato for string trio by Imogene Horsley, teaching fellow in music, is a logically built work with some excellent contrapuntal passages and often lyrical melodic line. Betty Churgin's Allegretto for flute and piano consists of the episodic treatment of two recurrent themes. Because of some weak transitions, the sections seemed somewhat dis-connected--though they were skillfully worked out in themselves...