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...cannot drink a glass of beer without its dilution in Handel's Water Music," Author-Critic Jacques Barzun wrote recently, in describing the amazing musical saturation of the U.S. atmosphere. This week Piano Virtuoso Artur Rubinstein (see PEOPLE) enthusiastically echoes Barzun's point that "in spite of our perennial croaking about America's neglect of the arts, the country spends more money for music than the entire rest of the world." Since the hi-fi revolution, a growing slice of that money has been spent on records, which have created a magnificent "concert hall without walls...
...Handel-Solomon...
...Thomas Beecham has drastically cut and revised the order of Solomon, one of Handel's most popular oratorios, which up to now was mysteriously un-recorded. Fortunately, he has left in the wonderful choruses which distinguish the work. The soloists are capable and the balance and recording are smooth. If you aren't a purist demanding Solomon complete, you'll probably enjoy this version. (Angel...
...first great exponent of a form that was to inspire Bach, Vivaldi, and Handel, Corelli was to set the style for years to come for the Concerto Grosso. Yet, like all great composers, Corelli avoided a dogmatic conception of musical form, and within the twelve concerti of Opus 6 there are twelve different variations on the general slow-fast-slow-fast and fast-slow-fast shapes. Quadri elicits a lovely shimmering string tone from the English Baroque Orchestra. (Westminster...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Handel's The Messiah...