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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Berg: Wozzeck (Eileen Farrell, soprano; Mack Harrell and Ralph Herbert, baritones; David Lloyd, tenor; Choruses of the Schola Cantorum and High School of Music and Art; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Dimitri Mitropoulos conducting; Columbia, 4 sides LP). An excellent recording of Conductor Mitropoulos' memorable concert performance in Carnegie Hall last spring (TIME, April...
...some assurance that he could "maintain the music." What, for instance, could he offer for the coming Good Friday service? Bach produced his brand-new Passion According to St. John and got the job. Last week RCA Victor released the first complete recording of the St. John (6 sides LP) ever made in English...
Beethoven: Quartets Op. 131 and Op. 59, Nos. 1, 2 and, 3 (the Pascal String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 8 sides LP). Distinguished performances of one of the great "last" quartets and of the three "Rasoumovsky" quartets from Beethoven's middle years. The Paganini Quartet, playing with a more refined tone, offers an equally distinguished performance of the superb Quartet Op. 132 (Victor, 2 sides LP). Recordings: good...
Copland: Old American Songs (William Warfield, baritone; Aaron Copland, piano; Columbia, 1 side LP). Simple arrangements, sung with spirit, of The Boatmen's Dance, The Dodger and I Bought Me a Cat. Other interesting home products can be heard in "Music in America's" Early American Psalmody (the Margaret Dodd Singers) and Ballads in Colonial America (sung by Jean Ritchie and Tony Kraber; New Records, 4 sides LP). Recordings: good...
Debussy: La Mer (the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Toscanini has never been satisfied with his own, or anyone else's, navigations of this impressionistic evocation of the sea. In this, his first recording, his performance has subtlety, majesty, color and power-and less perfumery than most conductors give the piece. Recording: excellent...