Word: gazza
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Rossini: Overtures (NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Italy's great kettledrum-banging composer is heard with appropriate thunder on unbreakable plastic records, which catch the crescendos without the mushiness of ordinary records. Best is Toscanini's job on La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie). Also in Victor's second plastic album are the overtures to The Barber of Seville, La Cenerentola (Cinderella) and Il Signor Bruschino. Performance : excellent...
Whatever else one feels about this problem, one has a right to expect that a majority of the music in a symphony orchestra's concert will be substantial works which one can take seriously. Light works like Rossini's La Gazza Ladra and Tchaikovsky's Italian Caprice are expected occasionally, for they add a great deal to the attractiveness of a concert and serve as "breathers." However, when this type of music makes up half of a program, and the Reger variations weigh down the other half, one suspects that whoever planned the concert did not think much...
...Boston Symphony Orchestra's Sanders Theatre series will come on Thursday evening. Nikolai Malko, a Russian who has been active in Russia and the Scandinavian countries as a conductor and teacher, will conduct the orchestra in a rather unusual program consisting of Rossini's Overture to "la Gazza Ladra," the First Symphony of Shostakovitch, Max Reger's Variations on a Theme of Mozart, and Tchaikovsky's "Capriccio Italien." The inclusion of both the Rossini and the Tchaikovsky makes the program as a whole rather light. We are not acquainted with the Reger composition, but we hope that these variations...