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Before he died at 77, Franz Joseph Haydn composed more than 500 works, including at least 104 symphonies. Last week the Haydn Society, which has been busying itself preparing a catalogue of Haydn compositions and recording many of them, reported some tentative findings: some 50 works generally attributed to Haydn are not his at all-and further, many a Haydn score has been tampered with by "improving" editors...
...spirit of the original. The mock-solemn humor of Carroll's perversely logical nonsense is all but lost in a jazzed-up jangle of gags, violence, slapstick and sticky jukebox ballads. Only rarely, e.g., the scene where Alice (spoken by Kathy Beaumont) meets the hookah-smoking caterpillar (Richard Haydn), does the Disney idiom enrich the fun instead of slanting it down to the comic-strip level...
...Records For more than a year, Haydn Society musicologists have been busy preparing the score of Haydn's last and never staged opera, Orfeo ed Euridice, for recording-with the society's energetic young (25) H. C. Robbins Landon promising that it would "hold its own alongside Mozart's Don Giovanni" (TIME, Dec. 25). Record buyers last week could judge Landon's estimate for themselves. The society's complete recording of Orfeo, with six soloists and the Vienna State Opera chorus and orchestra under Hans Swarowsky, made six fascinating LP sides...
Unlike Gluck's Orfeo, which is sung by a contralto, Haydn's hero is a tenor. Like Gluck, Haydn saves his most compelling music for Orfeo to sing in Hades, but neither of the lovers is allowed to return to earth. Altogether, Haydn's Orfeo is closer in style to Don Giovanni than to Gluck. It has some of the Don's power and beauty, if not its delightful variety. Performance and recording: good...
...twenty-six year old conductor still has a lot to learn. His interpretations of Haydn and Mozart were much too heavy-handed; and his readings of the Romantic composers were frequently muddy because of his inability to sustain the melodic line. However, Stanger exhibited a firm grasp of the modern idiom, and his performances of three recent compositions were the highlights of the season...