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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Verdi's month on records. Victor reissued a superlative performance of one of the most remarkable works of all time: the Requiem (4 sides LP). The music has all the passion and dramatic impact of a Verdi opera, and the soloists, Beniamino Gigli, Maria Caniglia, Ebe Stignani and Ezio Pinza, were all able to do it justice when this version was originally recorded in 1939. Conductor Tullio Serafin does his share with the Royal Opera Chorus and Orchestra of Rome. The recording is good...
...raging price war among Square phonograph record dealers yesterday forced the Hi Fi Lab, the last hold-out, to cut LP record prices 25 percent. The latest reduction gave indication that the price-war would probably become more intense within the next few days...
...three other Square record shops are already giving discounts ranging from 20 to 50 percent. McKenna's, which began giving a 20 percent discount the first of the month, attributed the cut in prices on similar cuts by Sam Goody of New York, the country's largest LP distributor. The effects of Goody's undercutting made the reduction necessary, according to one of the officials of McKenna. Harvard Square is only one of many areas that has been hit by the price...
Haydn: Six Quartets, Op. 17 (the Schneider Quartet; Haydn Society, 6 sides LP). These lively quartets are among the first three dozen of the 85 Haydn wrote. The performances are straightforward and sometimes brusque, short on nuance and beauty of tone. Recording: good...
Shostakovich: Song of the Forests (Combined Choirs and State Orchestra of the U.S.S.R., Eugene Mravinsky conducting; Vanguard, 2 sides LP). This oratorio, composed in 1949, won back for Shostakovich the Kremlin favor he lost in 1948. The reason is evident in this first recording to reach the U.S. Strictly old shapka, it sounds more like Glinka in an off-moment than the dissonantly powerful Shostakovich of Symphony No. 5. The performance is rousing, the recording fair...