Word: lp
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year, when the Juilliard String Quartet performed the entire cycle of six, Columbia saw a chance to get them all recorded in one set. Out this month, on three LP records, is the result. The performances are superb, and so is the recording...
...band has new put this Album on one LP record, and it sounds better then ever. The original 1946 version was on Shellac, it was re-pressed two years later on Vinylite; the new LP combines the performance of the former with the sparkle of the latter, all on one nice big convenient disk...
Bach: Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D Minor (Gyorgy Sandor, pianist; Columbia, 1 side LP). Hungarian Pianist Sandor gives this astonishing and unequaled invention of Bach's a thorough doing, but occasionally adds a Chopinesque flavoring of his own. Recording: good...
Mozart: Excerpts from Don Giovanni (Ljuba Welitch, soprano, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Next to her lurid Salome, red-haired Bulgarian Soprano Welitch gets her biggest hand at the Met in the role of the vengeance-seeking Donna Anna. A lesser man than the dashing Don would wilt before the fury of this thousand-volt voice. Recording : excellent...
Strauss: Excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier (Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, sopranos; Dagmar Hermann, contralto; Ludwig Weber, bass; with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Otto Ackermann conducting; Columbia 2 sides LP). For the Vienna company, singing Der Rosenkavalier is a matter of doing what comes naturally. Outstanding: Soprano Seefried's Octavian in the second-act love duet with Sophie (Soprano Schwarzkopf). Recording: good...