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William Walton: Concerto for Violin and Orchestra (Jascha Heifetz, with Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens; Victor; 6 sides). Fine first recording of a pulsing score. Lanky Composer Walton wrote it for Heifetz in 1939, but the composer, a British ambulance driver, never heard his work out loud until this recording was sent to England by Clipper...
Violinist Hubermann, 59-year-old Polish Jew, has often been rated one of Europe's greatest, but in the U.S. and London he has never been such big box office as mellow Fritz Kreisler, brilliant Jascha Heifetz, musicianly Joseph Szigeti. Hubermann is finicky, fussy on the platform. Once he noticed that his audience included a dog, on a woman's lap. He stopped playing, demanded: "Madam, has your little dog paid for his ticket?", waited while woman and dog were hustled...
When Werner Janssen formed his symphony last year, critics praised its smooth string playing (its motto: "Every man a Heifetz"), the variety of its music. But when the Janssen Symphony wangled eight dates on California's Standard Symphony Hour, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began to jitter. The Philharmonic, founded in 1919 by Copperman William Andrews Clark Jr., and nurtured until his death in 1934 by about $3,000,000 of his money, now depends on the public for support (deficit: $100,000 or more a year). The Philharmonic was afraid that Los Angeles could not support two symphonies...
Mozart: Concerto No. 3 in E Flat Major for Horn and Orchestra (Aubrey Brain and the BBC Symphony, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor; 4 sides; $2.50) and Duo No. 2 in B Flat Major for Violin and Viola (Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose; Victor; 5 sides; $3). Two out-of-the-way items, finely tooled...
Brahms: Double Concerto in A Minor (Jascha Heifetz, violinist, Emanuel Feuermann, cellist, with the Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 8 sides; $4.50). Bearded Brahms at his most robust; performance, perfect; recording, flawless...