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...church music. Considering not the music's quality nor the composer's piety, but only the music's appropriateness to the atmosphere and technical requirements of the liturgy, the Black List includes all the religious music of Handel, Mozart, Schubert, Rossini, Weber and Verdi, most of Haydn's and Beethoven's. Blacklisted also are such treacly items as At Dawning, I Love You Truly, Good Night Sweet Jesus and the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria. The great Johann Sebastian Bach, though he was a Lutheran, is on the White List...
...Haydn: Symphony No. 103 ("Drum Roll") (Halle Orchestra, Leslie Heward conducting; Columbia; 6 sides). Rather heavy-handed version of an ingratiating classic. Performance : fair. Recording : fair...
...about 30 such towns, audiences of 200 to 1,000 will pay from $400 to $1,500 to hear the Budapest, confident that the great quartet music of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert will be exquisitely interpreted. The Budapest four play with the warmest understanding of their scores, the subtlest of teamwork and an almost incredible matching of tone. Their splendid recorded performances for Victor and Columbia have recently sold to the lively tune of about 300,000 records a year...
...Coppet's Team. The league of which the Budapesters are now the practically undisputed champions is a large one. Its impressive history goes back to the 18th Century day when Hungary's Prince Esterházy hired Franz Joseph Haydn to write and play quartets and symphonies for him. Quartet playing has been one of the chief private pleasures of almost every accomplished string player who ever lived-and the public profession of scores of them. Many wealthy European amateurs have spent their space time playing second fiddle in a quartet with three professionals, supported for the purpose...
Beethoven: "Jena" Symphony (Janssen Symphony, Werner Janssen conducting; Victor; 6 sides). Experts agree that this work, unearthed in manuscript in 1909, may or may not be Beethoven. One has described it as 6/8 Haydn, ⅛ Mozart, 1/16 late Beethoven and 1/16 Schubert. It sounds like agreeable, lightweight early 19th Century music, is admirably performed and recorded...