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...CESAR FRANCK: QUINTET FOR PIANO AND STRINGS (Roth String Quartet with E. Robert Schmitz; Columbia: 10 sides). First modern recording of one of Franck's finest works. The Roth Quartet and Pianist Schmitz do well by its surging, Gothic phrases...
...CESAR FRANCK : CHORAL No. 1 IN E MAJOR FOR ORGAN (AlbertSchweitzer; Columbia: 4 sides). On the famous organ at Ste. Aurelie, Strasbourg, Organist Schweitzer plays Organist Franck's score as Franck himself might have played...
Favorite Ravinia composers proved to be Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Franck, Bach, Sibelius-in that order. This suggested nothing new to the committee, since Wagner, Brahms and Beethoven were most frequently played at Ravinia this summer. Only 4% were bored by any one number, only 8% enjoyed one just moderately. The rest enjoyed everything greatly, except for five people who were bored by a whole program, ten by half of a program. One person asked for a special number next summer-"Roosevelt's Funeral March." The committee decided to look elsewhere than in questionnaires for program ideas...
...completeness in your Music department? You claim to "note the noteworthy" in record releases. Yet in your July 4 issue, you fail to mention the Franck Sonata in A Major for piano and violin, superlatively played by Rubinstein and Heifetz...
...CESAR FRANCK: SONATA FOR VIOLIN & PIANO (Jascha Heifetz and Arthur Rubinstein; Victor: 6 sides). Polished performance by a perfectly matched pair of virtuosos...