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...Tree Grows in Brooklyn (Columbia; 2 sides LP). Arthur Schwartz's lively score is as full of good spirits and front-stoop romance as an old-fashioned block party. Marcia Van Dyke and Johnny Johnston sing the love songs (I'll Buy You a Star, Make the Man Love Me, etc.) straight from the shoulder; veteran Comedienne Shirley Booth comes through with a fine Brooklyn boid in her verce...
Piano Moods (Max Miller, Eadie & Rack; Columbia; 4 sides LP). Three new headliners in Columbia's program to corral the top U.S. pop pianists for its Moods series. Chicagoan Miller will please "progressives" with his tricky beat and boppish chording. Eadie and Rack's mile-a-minute keyboard calisthenics have more flash than form...
Mozart: Concerto in B Flat, K. 595 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Pro Musica Orchestra, Arthur Goldschmidt conducting; Vox, 2 sides LP). The last of Mozart's two dozen piano concertos, written in the year of his death (1791). Pianist Foldes plays it cleanly and with restraint. The orchestra is not quite so considerate. Recording: good...
Puccini: The Girl of the Golden West (Carla Gavazzi, soprano; Ugo Savarese, baritone; Vasco Campagnano, tenor, and others; chorus and orchestra of Radio Italiana, Arturo Basile conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Puccini's "western" may have been rip-roaring stuff at its premiere at the Met in 1910, with Caruso singing and Toscanini conducting, but it sounds pretty flat now. Performance and recording: good...
Verdi: Nabucco (Paolo Silveri, baritone; Cabriella Gatti, soprano; Caterina Mancini, soprano; Mario Binci, tenor, and others; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Fernando Previtali conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). Verdi's third opera, but the first to win him international fame. Composed when he was 29, Nabucco (short for Nebuchadnezzar) has much of the rousing spirit and power of Aïda and Otello. Performance and recording: excellent...