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SCHUMANN AND LALO CELLO CONCERTOS (Stanislaw Skrowaczewski conducting the London Symphony Orchestra; Mercury). Janos Starker, 39, perhaps the finest of the new generation of cellists, shows how to succeed without sounding like Casals: every note is clearly articulated and virtually free of vibrato. The Schumann, written during a period of joy and serenity, is allowed to speak eloquently for itself. Starker, who can also play like a mad gypsy, shows his Hungarian heritage in the Lalo...
...mixed colorless Italian and Spanish songs with minor arias by Cilea, Caccini, Massenet, Lalo, Puccini, and Bellini, and since the Puccini was "E Lucevan le Stelle," which is barely music, Bellini was left as the tallest of the pygmies. An usher told me that Tagliavini has been singing these bleak, unimaginative programs for years...
Born into an impoverished, nonmusical family Debussy had virtually no formal schooling as a child. Unpopular with the more hidebound instructors at the conservatory, he still managed to win the coveted Grand Prix de Rome by tossing off a composition (L'Enfant Prodigue) in deliberate imitation of Lalo and Delibes, the popular French composers of the day. Debussy was no admirer of either man, or of any other French contemporary. To him Berlioz was "a tremendous humbug, Charpentier was "downright vulgar," Massenet a panderer of "stupid ideas and amateur standards...
...Lalo: Piano Concerto (Orazio Frugoni, pianist; Vox, mono). French Composer Edouard Lalo (1823-92) is remembered chiefly for his Symphonic Espagnole, but he also wrote a number of operas, chamber works and concertos, of which this is one of the most engaging. Urbane, exotically colored, it sparkles in this recording with the prismatic fascination of a many-tiered chandelier...
...where even the foolhardy fear to tread, e.g., it has released such a risque modern work as Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Teresias. But there is also a large quota of safe and popular items-currently a new Madama Butterfly (the seventh on LP) ^and Oistrakh playing Lalo's Symphonic Espagnole. On the chic side, there are exquisite performances of the most sensuous musings of Debussy (Trois Nocturnes, La Mer) and Ravel (Daphnis et Chloe, L'Heure Espagnole}. There are also imposing works of Stravinsky and Bartok...