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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested a recording with Janssen conducting the Columbia Symphony. A little research revealed that half of the paraphrases had already been orchestrated, under the title Tati-Tati, by a pupil of Rimsky-Korsakov's, Nicolai Tcherepnine. Columbia put Tcherepnine's version on one side of an LP disc, Janssen's on the other...
Mario Lanza Sings Christmas Songs (Victor, 2 sides LP). Tenor Lanza tears into The First Noel, O Come, All Ye Faithful, and six more, with as much zest as if they were Puccini arias...
Chopin: Nocturnes (Artur Rubinstein, pianist; Victor, 4 sides LP). Chopin has always been Rubinstein's dish; in this new recording of all 19 nocturnes, he performs memorably. Recording: excellent...
Mahler: Symphony No. 2 (Ilona Stein-gruber, soprano; Hilde Rb'ssi-Majdan, alto; the Akademie Chamber Chorus and the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Otto Klemperer conducting; Vox, 4 sides LP). The first of Mahler's king-sized symphonies, the "Resurrection" has moments of power and reverent beauty, and more traces of form than his later ones. The performance is good, the recording harsh...
Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux conducting; Victor, 2 sides LP). Retiring San Francisco Symphony Conductor Monteux cuts himself a fitting memorial. He gave this still fierce-sounding work its riotous Paris première 37 years ago; here, leading the orchestra with which he began his U.S. symphonic career in 1919, he surely equals the fire and versatility of that first performance. Recording: excellent...