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Berg: Der Wein (Charlotte Boerner, soprano; Janssen Symphony Orchestra, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 1 side LP). Berg's masterful concert aria extols the qualities of wine ("I make your wife's eyes sparkle and give fresh strength to your son") in twelve-tone style. San Francisco Chronicle Music Critic Alfred Frankenstein explains the twelve-tone language (with Bergian illustrations) on the second side. Performance and recording: excellent...
Handel-Schoenberg: Concerto for String Quartet and Orchestra (Janssen Symphony Orchestra of Los Angeles, Werner Janssen conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). A somewhat colorless concerto grosso (Op. 6, No. 7) is brought to surprising life. Schoenberg expanded and enriched it with some sonorities Handel never dreamed of, but retained enough Handel to pacify any startled classicists. Performance and recording: good...
Villa-Lobos: Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1, ChÔros No. 4 & No. 7 (chambergroups, Werner Janssen conducting; Capitol, 2 sides LP). South America's No. 1 composer writes here for such combinations as eight cellos, three horns and a trombone, five woodwinds and two strings and gong. Typical Villa-Lobos: brilliant color and exotic rhythms. Performance and recording: good...
Hindemrrh: Symphony in E Flat (Janssen Symphony Orchestra, Werner Janssen conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Composed in 1940, this symphony does not add much to what its composer said earlier in Mathis der Maler (1934), or to the way he said it. Performance and recording: good...
Metropolitan Opera (Sat. 2 p.m., ABC). Die Walküre, with Helen Traubel and Herbert Janssen...