Word: lp
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Toscanini and the BBC Symphony Orchestra created a series of recordings that were like valentines to each other. Here are five of them: Brahms' Tragic Overture, Beethoven's Leonore Overture No. 1, the Weber-Berlioz Invitation to the Dance and, for the first time on American LP, Mozart's Magic Flute Overture and Rossini's La Scala di Seta Overture. As usual, the maestro's familiar musical gusto is the controlling factor, augmented by the expressive freedom he accorded the BBC first-desk men in their solo work. There is also a certain pervasive ease...
...result, most of the songs on Box Scaggs (Atlantic) are arranged with a tightness and professionalism that is usually missing in white rock. With the exception of "Loan Me a Dime," a twelve-minute blues which is redeemed primarily by the quality of the guitar work, the whole LP is free of the kind of excesses (mostly wretched) that new groups tend to wallow...
...though in Livingston's case not always willingly?ridden on James' coattails. Yet the tendency to see Livingston merely as an "up" imitation of James' "down" is unfair and misleading, as anyone will know who listens to the deft melodic twists and musical good humor of Livingston's first LP, especially the songs Carolina Day and Sit on Back. Alex's LP, released last week, divulges a freewheeling, lowdown style of music that lies somewhere between Hee Haw and New Orleans' Jazz Preservation Hall. Kate's album debut, Sister Kate, produced by Peter Asher and due for release next month...
...could easily have gone on to a profitable life of barnstorming the world with war-horse concertos. Instead, after sharing first prize with Vladimir Ashkenazy in Moscow's 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition, he became an evangelist for music that few other major pianists would touch. One of his best LP albums is devoted entirely to some of the piano music of Carl Nielsen (RCA), another to Ferruccio Busoni's hour-long piano concerto (Angel), a woolly and wonderful specimen of Germanic post-romanticism that includes a resounding men's chorus in the finale. Following this bent, Ogdon...
Joplin's Pearl (Columbia) is not just her best LP, but in all probability the best ever recorded by a white female blues singer. In contrast to the blowsy, brassy backing of three earlier LPs, she is supported this time by the Full Tilt Boogie Band, a tightly knit combo dominated by Richard Bell's superb piano. Never before did she exercise such control over her voice. To hear her build Kris Kristofferson's country blues ballad, Me & Bobby McGee, from tree-shaded quiet into high-noon bustle is to know that pacing and nuance...