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Sweden's Gustav VI Adolf...
...GUSTAV HOLST: A CHORAL FANTASIA/ PSALM 86 AND GERALD FINZI: DIES NATALIS (Everest). An opportunity to compare two widely diverging paths in modern vocal music. Hoist is sophisticated and eclectic: his bold Fantasia has a concerto-like role for the organ along with choral and solo sections; in the Psalm, he spins a gossamer a cappella prayer. By contrast, Finzi's quiet music comments on the lyrics, in this case Metaphysical Poet Thomas Traherne's musings on the innocence and beauty of children. Tenor Wilfred Brown's impeccable diction helps to make this a delightfully accessible, intimate...
...sanction what today is the "in" thing to dp-lift the lid off the cesspool and revel in its bad odors. Spare us the ravings of the "confessional poet": poetry is no place for psychotic self-purgation. Miss Plath is typical of those who, in the words of Poet GustaV Davidson, have "corrupted poetry by emptying it of music, magic and meaning...
MAHLER: SYMPHONY NO. 10 (2 LPs; Columbia). Gustav Mahler died in 1911 after orchestrating about half of his last symphony. Several Mahlerites have fleshed out the last movements, including British Composer Deryck Cooke (TIME, Nov. 26), whose inspired and faithful version was used for this first recording. The anxieties of Mahler's last summer, including illness and a marital crisis, along with the marginal notes on his manuscript ("Oh God, why hast Thou forsaken me?"), suggest that the music is programmatic in the most personal way. It is a melody-drenched, emotional and yet finally serene farewell to life...
...taciturn, a monocle screwed tight in one chilly pale eye, his boots gleaming with metronomic precision as he paced the stone floor of his cell, the prisoner never complained and never begged for mercy. When the gallows trap was sprung on Oct. 16, 1946, and Wilhelm Bodewin Johann Gustav Keitel dropped to his death, it is doubtful that he had any regrets. Keitel had long before reached the end of his rope...