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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years. When he gave his first U.S. concerts a year ago, critics cheered (Washington Post and Times Herald's Paul Hume: "We know of no pianist anything like him of any age"). Last week the result of Gould's recording session was out on a Columbia LP. His "Goldberg" Variations are Bach as the old master himself must have played-with delight in speeding like the wind, joy in squeezing beauty out of every phrase, and all the freshness of the spring water which Hypochondriac Gould uses to wet his pipes...
...Schwarzkopf, Conductor Herbert von Karajan with London's Philharmonia Orchestra, Russian Pianist Emil Gilels. Some record shoppers will buy the bright, cellophane-wrapped Angel albums for the label alone. Although Angel's sales are still well behind Victor and Columbia, the company now ranks fourth in classical LP sales (just behind London), and rival record executives have come to regard the muscle-flexing cherub nervously...
...programing, Angel sometimes rushes in 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...
While the company has made no definite plans regarding classical music, it will issue its first folksong LP, "The Voice of Sam Gary", late in December...
...Vanguard). This imposing work was completed in 1911 when the late U.S. Composer Charles Ives was 37. Its serene and majestic first movement is the most appealing, but its allegro gets involved in a struggle between sprightly and weighty themes. The finale, again, is flowingly introspective. On an Overtone LP, Soprano Helen Boatwright performs Ives's 24 Songs. The selections span nearly the entire period of Ives's creative life. They show him as a romantic in spirit, a modern in terseness and detail...