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...Columbia recorded Weingartner's performances of all 13 symphonies. Bestsellers in their day, they have long been out of stock. Now, "by request," Columbia has repressed them on LP. Few listeners will side with Debussy. Weingartner proves to be a tidy conductor indeed, but from these recordings, some made with the Vienna Philharmonic, some with the London Symphony, his chief characteristic seems to be mellow and spacious splendor...
Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer (Blanche Thebom, mezzo-soprano, with orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Victor, I side LP). Mahler's hauntingly lovely song cycle here gets a pure and richly expressive performance. Recording: excellent...
Mozart: Quintet in A, K. 581 (Benny Goodman, clarinet; the American Art Quartet; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Mozart was fascinated with the "soft, sweet breath" of the clarinet, still a novelty in his day. He wrote three chamber works for it, of which this is the best. Benny Goodman plays cleanly and with style. Recording: excellent...
Puccini: La Bohème (Licia Albanese, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 4 sides LP). This recording of the Maestro's 1946 broadcast will make opera fans regretfully aware of how seldom they hear a first-rate performance of Bohème. Toscanini, who conducted the world premiere in 1896, gives it a rare force, clarity and subtlety. The singers are all in fine voice-including amateur Baritone Toscanini, whose hoarse old bawling can be clearly heard accompanying the principals in several passages. Recording: excellent. A new recording of Tosco, (Cetra-Soria...
...Goody was selling about $200,000 worth of records a year in a small shop. Goody, deciding that LPs were the coming thing, dumped most of his stock of 78-r.p.m.s at 50% off. To push the LPs, he offered them at 30% discount. He threw in an LP attachment free with every $25 worth of records, to date has given away 20,000. He flooded schools and colleges with direct-mail literature touting his 30% discounts word-of-mouth advertising did the rest. His sales shot up to an estimated $1,900,000 last year; in the first...