Word: goehring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schumann: Concerto in A Minor for Piano and Orchestra (Myra Hess with an orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Victor: 8 sides). Finest recording to date of a popular Romantic masterpiece...
...London Symphony, Malcolm Sargent conducting. with Artur Schnabel; Victor: 8 sides; Concerto in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491 (London Philharmonic, Lawrence Collingwood conducting, with Edwin Fischer; Victor: 8 sides), and Concerto in D Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 537 (Wanda Landowska with Chamber Orchestra; Walter Goehr conducting; Victor: 7 sides). Choice between the month's three Mozart piano concertos is hard to make. Each of the three is one of Mozart's finest works, each is done in top-notch style...
...scorned by most serious musicians, now like an important prima donna has music composed expressly for it. German Kurt Weill wrote the cantata Lindbergh's Flight for radio performance (TIME, April 13). Last week the first radio opera, Malpopita, was given in Berlin?the work of Composer Walter Goehr, a follower of Ultramodernists Franz Schrecker and Arnold Schonberg...
...Goehr's Malpopita is thoroughly morbid, as are nearly all current European art-efforts. Adam Schickedanz, after ten years in a factory, seeks adventure, falls in with sailors who persuade him to ship aboard a rumrunner. Fleeing from U. S. Government boats, the ship is wrecked on the island of Malpopita where the crew eventually discovers oil and Adam becomes once more a heckled, hard-working under...