Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier (Wanda Landowska, harpsichord; Victor, 2 sides LP). The second installment (Preludes and Fugues 9-16) of 71-year-old Harpsichordist Landowska's definitive "last will and testament" (TIME, June 20, 1949). Recording: excellent...
Bernstein: Symphony No. 2 (Lukas Foss, pianist; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Leonard Bernstein conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Composer Bernstein took his inspiration for this work from Poet W. H. Auden's The Age of Anxiety; he seems to have taken his musical inspiration from Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Stravinsky, et al. Performance and recording: good...
Mozart: Concerto No. 18, K.456 (Lili Kraus, pianist; with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Goehr conducting; Decca-Parlophone, 2 sides LP). This is one of Mozart's finest concertos, and Pianist Kraus plays it strongly and forthrightly. Completing the second side, with Violinist Szymon Goldberg, she plays the unfinished Sonata K.404. Performance and recording: good...
Schumann: Scenes of Childhood (Vladimir Horowitz, pianist; Victor, 1 side LP). Pianist Horowitz caresses Schumann's cameolike little classics with more affectation than affection...
Verdi: Quartet in E Minor (the Paganini Quartet; Victor, 2 sides LP). Stuck in Naples, where he had gone to supervise a production of Aïda, Verdi, then 60, decided to "amuse myself" by composing a string quartet-his first and only one. After a private performance, he pronounced it merely a "pastime," refused to have it published. He was too hard on himself: though his quartet is not quite a masterpiece of its kind, its first movement particularly has Verdi's irresistible melodic appeal. Performance and recording: excellent...