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Symphony Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky conducting; Haydn Society, 8 sides LP). This first complete new recording in years of Mozart's masterpiece should be an event of the season; unhappily, it is not. The soloists are not quite up to the mark; altogether it does not bubble and boil like the Glyndebourne Company's old performance (for Victor). The recording of this version, however, is superior...
Thornton plans to add some interesting features to the all-music fare. Among these are a series of critical discussions on new records by music experts and engineers. Sometime in March, WXHR will premier Haydn's opera "Orfeo and Eurydice," which is now being recorded in Venice. The score for this opera, which has been missing since the composer's death, have just recently been found after a year long search. The station hopes to expand its record collection now around 400 LP recordings, to 3,000, and to offer live music as well. Although this is an ambitious program...
Music will again be heard in the Lamont Forum Room when the second annual series of recorded classics begins at 4 p.m. this afternoon. Today's one hour program consists of Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, Brahms' Trio for Violin, Horn and Piano Op. 40, and Haydn's Symphony No. 88. The program will be held every Friday afternoon...
...unspectacular performance. As Disraeli, Alec (Kind Hearts and Coronets) Guinness gives a superb reading of a long, eloquent speech in the House of Commons, turning the mudlark's adventure into an affair of state. Most of the time, however, Guinness plays with a mincing air that suggests Richard Haydn's caricature of an over-prim Englishman. The Mudlark owes its best performances to Finlay Currie, playing an outspoken, sozzled old Scot in the Queen's service, and eleven-year-old Actor Ray, who is altogether winning as the grimy orphan who wants a peek at the mother...
Unlike Gluck's Orfeo, Haydn's opera has an unhappy ending: Orfeo's beautiful singing is not enough to bring his Eurydice back from the dead; Orfeo himself is poisoned by the Bacchae. Enthusiastic Robbins Landon, who recorded Orfeo with singers, chorus and orchestra (cut to a Haydn-prescribed 40 pieces) of the Vienna State Opera, was ready to predict that "it will hold its own alongside [Mozart's] Don Giovanni. We don't believe in resuscitating something from the dead unless it's really a killer. And this...