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...Joseph Haydn and Domenico Scarlatti: Piano Sonatas (Jacob Feuerring; Timely: 10 sides). Six light, early classics, well-performed, recorded like real life...
...orchestra played selections from Haydn's "Clock Symphony", a Brabma Hungarian Dance, and a medley from Kern's "Show Boast...
...Haydn: Symphony No. 80 in D Minor and Symphony No. 67 in F Major (Orchestra of the New Friends of Music, Fritz Stiedry conducting; Victor: One vol., 9 sides). Of the five unpublished Haydn symphonies that Musicologist Alfred Einstein dug out of European libraries last summer (TIME, March 6), two are here recorded for the first time. Both are good-vintage Haydn, both rather coarsely and pedantically performed...
Album of Fantasias (Grace Castagnetta, pianist; Timely*: 8 sides). An anthology including works by Haydn, Beethoven, Schumann, Brahms, Scriabin and Shostakovich, some of them previously unrecorded. Capably performed, magnificently recorded, with an explanatory pamphlet by Author Hendrik Van Loon...
Another big step in Haydn scholarship was taken in Manhattan last week when the New Friends of Music (no kin to the Vienna Friends) played the first of five editions by Musicologist Alfred Einstein (distant kin to Physicist Albert Einstein) of "new" symphonies probably never played since Papa Haydn conducted them for the Esterhazys a century and a half ago: Nos. 67, 71, 77, 80, 87. Having examined all the great Haydn collections, except the Esterhazys', Dr. Einstein had made diligent revisions, here deleting a spurious passage put in by an overenthusiastic conductor, there restoring an eccentric "lost" bagpipe...