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...pickle factory on the side. But for years he lived on little more than rolls and water, and his wife sold flowers in the Hamburg market, to scrape together enough money to finance his life's work. It was to make a complete edition of Composer George Frederick Handel's works. Chrysander died in 1901, with the job far from done...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Vivaldi's Concerto for Violin and Strings in B Flat; Bach's Suite No. 3 in D Major and Passacaglia in C Minor; Handel's Concerto Grosso in D Minor. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...Summer Symphony (Sun. 5 p.m., NBC). Rachmaninoff's Symphonic Dances, Strauss's love scene from Feuers-not, Handel-Elgar's Overture in D Minor, the Andante Cantabile from Tchaikovsky's String Quartet in D Major. Conductor: Frank Black...
...Handel: Concerto in B Minor for Viola (William Primrose, viola, with the RCA-Victor Orchestra, Frieder Weissmann conducting; Victor, 5 sides). Handel seems to be making a comeback. This little-known, stately and graceful concerto was arranged by Henri Casadesus (uncle of Pianist Robert) in 1925, and is performed with spirit and fine tone by Primrose. Recording: excellent...
...Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi (Busch Chamber Players, Adolf Busch conducting; Columbia, 49 sides, 3 volumes). In presenting all of Handel's great monuments of improvisation for the first time in the U.S., Columbia does not match its laudable ambition with sound achievement. The performance is generally good, though uneven; the recording is not all it should...