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...Beautiful Sea (Shirley Booth, Wilbur Evans; Capitol LP). Mostly ordinary show tunes by Arthur Schwartz (music) and Dorothy Fields (lyrics), but Actress-Singer Booth puts a few of them over with a fine, plaintive twang that helps explain the success of the Broadway production. Best tunes: I'd Rather Wake Up by Myself, Lottie Gibson Specialty, both sung by Booth, and Coney Island Boat, sung by the chorus while Booth at the same time sings In the Good Old Summertime to form one of those two-headed duets (e.g., You're Just in Love, from Call Me Madam...
Louis Armstrong Sings the Blues (Victor LP). The great jazzman, his trumpet, and the voice that sounds like gravel tossed into a malted machine. There are a dozen tunes (originally recorded from 1933 to 1947), including Basin Street Blues, St. Louis Blues and Rockin' Chair, an exemplary duet with oldtime Trombonist Jack Teagarden. Other supporters: Pianists Teddy Wilson and Johnny Guarnieri, Trombonist Kid Ory, Trumpeter Bobby Hackett, Drummer Cozy Cole...
...Sowerby-have written dozens of organ pieces, and U.S. audiences have found a new interest in long-lost chords. Leader of the organ revival is E. (for Edward) Power Biggs, 48, the U.S.'s most noted organist, who plays weekly (Sunday mornings) CBS radio programs. His Columbia LP recordings have sold more than 100,000 copies in the past five years. "It's still less than half of what Liberace sells," says a pressagent, "but that's a lot of organ music of a fairly lofty nature...
Schoenberg:Gurre-Lieder (Chorus and orchestra of Paris' New Symphony Society and soloists conducted by Rene Leibowitz; Haydn Society, 3 LPs). The first complete LP recording of a turning-point (1901-11) masterpiece by Atonalist-to-be Schoenberg. The vast score calls for an orchestra of 155 instruments, a minimum chorus of 180 and six soloists, spins out the supernatural romance in a delicate blend of Wagner and Mahler. Performed and recorded with enthusiastic care...
Beethoven: Bagatelles (Grant Johannesen; Concert Hall). Into these "trifles," Beethoven poured some of his loftiest imaginings and fiercest humors. The Johannesen performance covers 26 numbers. On a Cook LP, Pianist Leonid Hambro plays half a dozen of the late Bagatelles, together with Beethoven's powerful 32 Variations in C Minor. Both performances are first-rate...