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...Connecticut barn until 1946, when it got its first performance and won him a Pulitzer Prize. The calm first movement is particularly prizeworthy. The National Gallery Orchestra (Richard Bales conducting) has given the symphony a good performance in a new recording by WCFM Recording Corp. (2 sides LP...
Copland: Sonata for Violin and Piano (Joseph Fuchs, violin; Leo Smit, piano; Decca, 1 side LP). One of U.S. Composer Aaron Copland's later (1942-43) and most lyrical pieces, masterfully performed. The record carries a matching performance of Stravinsky's neo-classical Duo Concertant on the other side. Recording: good...
Grieg: Haugtussa (Kirsten Flagstad, soprano; Edwin McArthur, piano; Victor, 2 sides LP). Grieg's rustic cycle of eight songs might never be missed, but as a vehicle for Flagstad's glorious soprano they are worth hearing. Recording: good...
Poulenc: Mass in G (the Robert Shaw Chorale, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 1 side LP). Composed in 1937, this Mass, austerely but tenderly reverent, is one of the best works that have yet come from Frenchman Francis Poulenc. Shaw's clean choral work is up to his usual high standard. On the other side: Benjamin Britten's graceful A Ceremony of Carols. Recording: excellent...
...ambitious and "continuing" project called Piano Moods, "a cross-section of major piano styles of the day." Before the series is finished, Columbia plans to put most of the big-name "eighty-eighters" (missing: Art Tatum, George Shearing, who are tied up with other companies) onto two ten-inch LP sides apiece. The five sets out last week are a fair slice of Columbia's cross-section...