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...Tosca with Soprano Zinka Milanov; Tchaikovsky's "Pathetique" with Pierre Monteux and the Boston Symphony; and Brahms's Concerto No. 2 with Russian Pianist Emil Gilels backed by Fritz Reiner and the Chicago Symphony. Vanguard Records' new line, Everyman, includes a fine performance of Haydn's Creation, conducted by Mogens Wo¨ldike...
...HAYDN: THE STURM UND DRANG SYMPHONIES (Vanguard). Haydn was a bit overwrought in the years when he composed these six pivotal symphonies, but one would never know it from these mellow recordings by Antonio Janigro and the Radio Zagreb Symphony Orchestra. All three LPs are superbly recorded, but Janigro mutes the voice of Haydn's turmoil under a soft quilt of woodwinds...
Heard any Haydn recently, or any light opera? Seen any bizarre comedy, or a touch of burlesque? If you have or haven't, it's no matter. There's a little of everything in the Lowell House production of Haydn's House Afire, and it makes for one of the most delightful evenings of entertainment to hit Cambridge in a long while...
...word of explanation is needed. Haydn's Die Feuerbrunst was first performed in the late eighteenth century, when minuets were minuets and a man knew his place in society. Something happened, however, and the manuscript for the opera was lost. It turned up at Yale in an obscure collection several years ago, music and lyrics intact, but with the libretto missing. Some Yale graduate students promptly translated the songs and wrote a libretto around them. As might be expected of Yalies, they produced a real abortion--twentieth century humor built on eighteenth century rhymes, with an incredibly intricate plot...
...Haydn's music itself is rather unexceptionable. The entire opera contains well over twenty-five songs, many indistinguishable. Conducted by Joel Lazar, the surprisingly large orchestra (26 pieces) plays sprightly, but much too loudly for the singers. Their timing is occasionally ragged, and one always hopes for a bit more voice from on-stage to cover their mistakes...