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...response to widespread public demand," RCA Victor has been reaching into its vault, doling out items on LP from its "Treasury of Immortal Performances." Last week two "Treasury" releases made record news...
...Aisle (Bert Lahr and Dolores Gray; Decca, 2 sides LP). The tunes run second to the comedy in this current Broadway hit, but Lahr's wobbly voice in The Clown is worth the price of the album. Moreover, Songstress Gray can put over a song with vigor and charm; the proof is in There Never Was a Baby Like My Baby, If You Hadn't But You Did, How Will He Know...
Verdi: La Traviata (Licia Albanese, soprano; Jan Peerce, tenor; Robert Merrill, baritone); the NBC Symphony Orchestra, Arturo Toscanini conducting; Victor, 4 sides LP). The recording loses a little of the fervor of the splendid 1946 broadcast...
Mahler: Kindertotenlieder (Kathleen Ferrier, contralto; the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bruno Walter conducting; Columbia, 2 sides LP). Mahler set to music these five poems written by Friedrich Rueckert just after the death of his child. They are eloquently direct-the more so as sung by expressive Contralto Ferrier. Recording: excellent...
Schubert: Die Winterreise (Hans Hot-;er, baritone; Michael Raucheisen, piano; Decca, 4 sides LP). Baritone Hotter sings Schubert's mournful cycle of a winter journey in good voice, but he fails to take command of the songs. Recording: good...