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CHAUSSON: SYMPHONY IN B FLAT MAJOR; FRANCK: LES EOLIDES (London). Ernest Chausson was a slow, self-doubting composer who shunned large undertakings, and is best known for his minor songs. The symphony form, he complained, caused him endless anxiety: "It is lively but not very much so, being somber and weighty too." His B Flat Major displays none of these characteristics. It is instead a pleasant, supple work, replete with gracefully phrased suggestions and intuitions, rather like prettified Wagner. Ernst Ansermet leads the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande in an appropriately understated performance. Chausson was one of Cesar Franck...
WALTER GIESEKING (Columbia ML 4536/37/38/39). Superlative readings of the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 23 and Franck Symphonic Variations, plus assorted works of Debussy...
...General Franck...
...memorandum, issued by General Bernard T. Franck, an assistant to Hershey, says that on March 11 Hershey met with "a number of representatives of graduate schools," in part to discuss "a proposal submitted by the group concerning the status of a young man who is ordered for induction while in graduate school...
Their Schubert bounded with youthful energy and spontaneity, and their Franck was a lyrical flood. But it was the richer, darker Brahms that most fully revealed the uncanny empathy that enabled them to pass themes back and forth, coloring and developing them but always weaving them seamlessly. The audience of 2,500 was so entranced that it barely noticed when a bird fluttered in the door, looped lazily over the two musicians, then settled in the rafters...