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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Symphony Orchestra, Hans Swarowsky conducting; Haydn Society, 8 sides LP). This first complete new recording in years of Mozart's masterpiece should be an event of the season; unhappily, it is not. The soloists are not quite up to the mark; altogether it does not bubble and boil like the Glyndebourne Company's old performance (for Victor). The recording of this version, however, is superior...
Berg: Lyric Suite (the Juilliard String Quartet; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Austrian Atonalist Alban Berg, who died in 1935; is rapidly coming into his own. His opera Wozzeck is enjoying a spate of concert performances (Columbia and Artist Records have recorded excerpts), and it will be a featured work at this year's Salzburg Festival. The Lyric Suite, composed six years later (1926), comes far more strangely to the ear, is not recommended for those not already pleased to make Berg's acquaintance. Performance and recording: excellent...
...premier Haydn's opera "Orfeo and Eurydice," which is now being recorded in Venice. The score for this opera, which has been missing since the composer's death, have just recently been found after a year long search. The station hopes to expand its record collection now around 400 LP recordings, to 3,000, and to offer live music as well. Although this is an ambitious program, if WXHR maintains its present success, it will undoubtedly come true...
Edith Piaf Sings Again (Columbia; 2 sides LP). More songs (six in French, two in English) about love, sweet & sour, by the little Frenchwoman with the big voice...
Dizzy Gillespie Plays (Discovery; 2 sides LP). Lost somewhere between the flatted fifths of basement bop and the swooping violins of mezzanine dinner music, "progressive" Dizzy gets his bearings now & then in a spot of good horn-playing...