Word: gazza
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recordings, it is some of the finest sound to be heard on records. Cook's first symphonic releases include two potpourris: Masterpieces of the Dance, with such old war horses as the Emperor Waltz and Danse Macabre, and Masterpieces from the Theater, with music from Carmen, La Gazza Ladra and Euryanthe. The major effort is Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G Minor, which, despite a too-speedy finale, is the best available LP of the great work. All are played by the excellent Orchestral Society of Boston conducted by Willis Page...
...these were extremes; the more substantial numbers on the program included Enesco's. Roumanian Rhapsody No. 1, Vaughn Williams' Fantasia on "Greensleeves," and Sibelius' Finlandia (the last complete with the popping of champagne corks during the dramatic pauses of the opening section). Rossini's overture to La Gazza Ladra (The Thieving Magpie) showed off the orchestra's first-rate woodwind section. And an arrangement of Cry proved to be a hilarious satire, with quotations from several symphonic works, imitations of whimpering by the trumpets and growling by the horns, and a most realistic baby cry--by a member...