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Strauss: Don Quixote (Pittsburgh Symphony, Fritz Reiner conducting, with Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist; Columbia; 10 sides). Cellist Piatigorsky brilliantly performs what many regard as Strauss's finest symphonic score...
...heard how you slaughtered the Socialists in East Prussia, and the first thing you knew you had a budget of $150,000 a year and lots of women and a big car. But I must say you paid off. It was you, wasn't it, who killed Gregor Strasser? And you who did the stool-pigeoning in the blood purge that sent Roehm and those other friends of Hitler down here...
Encore Album (Gregor Piatigorsky, cellist; Columbia; 6 sides). Six engaging short pieces, ranging from the tried & true Swan of Saint-Saëns to Prokofieff's whimsical Masques, played with flawless style, velvet tone...
...execution warrants for the Blood Purge of June 30, 1934 were signed in the clear, steady hand of Reinhard Heydrich. Sending two of his lieutenants to keep tabs on the Munich murders, Heydrich supervised the Berlin end of the massacre, found time to take personal care of Gregor Strasser, firebrand adherent of the Roehm rebels...
...cadet, won several promotions as an officer, was cashiered when a drunken brawl over a woman reached the courts. Then he entered the Nazi movement, looked about for a chance to rise. A chance appeared-blackmail. Learning that a Prussian official named Koch was in correspondence with the dissident Gregor Strasser, Heydrich courted Koch's wife and stole the letters. Armed with these, he extorted a recommendation to Himmler, who gave him a post with the Munich Elite Guard. Thereafter his rise was rapid. Just before the war insiders estimated that Heydrich grafted $150,000 a year, spent...