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...Rimsky-Korsakoff: Suite from Le Coq d'Or (French National Symphony Orchestra, Roger Désormière conducting; Capitol, 1 side LP). A color-rich score, played with elegance and recorded with luxuriant sound. The suite is also available on Vanguard, played by the State Radio Orchestra of the U-S.S.R., Nicolai Golovanov conducting. The latter reading is less sophisticated, has less resonant sound, but the recording is up to the standard of most U.S. releases...
...Rimsky-Korsakoff: Scheherazade (San Francisco Symphony, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor; 9 sides). The Pacific crew delivers an especially spicy version of this Oriental tale...
Sibeliophiles may find impressive the incidental music to Belshazzar's Feast, recorded on Victor for the first time by Robert Kajanus and the London Philharmonic (M715). I find it intolerably labored and mediocre. A self-conscious stab at the sort of exotic orchestral coloring one finds in Rimsky-Korsakoff, Belshazzar's Feast purports to describe scenes at an eastern potentate's court. The first and last movements, "Oriental Procession" and "Khadra's Dance," are nothing but meaningless jumbles of sound, with no melodic interest whatsoever and very little success in evoking any imaginative picture. The middle two movements, "Night...
...Hungarian Dance, and the unbreakable Blue Danube Waltz, are there for those who can still bear them. Of greater relish is the delightful fantasy "Fugue and Variations on Under the Spreading Chestnut-Tree" by Weinberger, one of the sensations of the past season. The ubiquitous Russians Moussorgsky and Rimsky-Korsakoff are represented by the magnificent coronation scene from "Boris Godunoff," a rarity even on mid-winder programs, and the Wedding March from "Coq d'Or," a typically pleasant example of Rimsky's slick, brilliant orchestration and excessive lushness. Perhaps the solidest thing on the program is the Overture...
Amidst these vicissitudes Songsters Massey and Eddy find time to sing often and well. Ilona Massey sings words to The Young Prince and the Young Princess from Rimsky-Korsakoff's Scheherazade, a duet from Carmen with Nelson Eddy. He sings the Volga Boatman's Song in rumbling Russian, other Muscovite songs in English...