Word: lp
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Last year, when the Juilliard String Quartet performed the entire cycle of six, Columbia saw a chance to get them all recorded in one set. Out this month, on three LP records, is the result. The performances are superb, and so is the recording...
Beethoven: Serenade, Op. 25 (John Wummer, flute; Alexander Schneider, violin; Milton Katims, viola; Columbia 2 sides LP). An early, infectiously light-hearted work for an unusual assortment of instruments; the players here make it sound good. Recording: excellent...
...band has new put this Album on one LP record, and it sounds better then ever. The original 1946 version was on Shellac, it was re-pressed two years later on Vinylite; the new LP combines the performance of the former with the sparkle of the latter, all on one nice big convenient disk...
Mozart: Excerpts from Don Giovanni (Ljuba Welitch, soprano, with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). Next to her lurid Salome, red-haired Bulgarian Soprano Welitch gets her biggest hand at the Met in the role of the vengeance-seeking Donna Anna. A lesser man than the dashing Don would wilt before the fury of this thousand-volt voice. Recording : excellent...
Strauss: Excerpts from Der Rosenkavalier (Elizabeth Schwarzkopf and Irmgard Seefried, sopranos; Dagmar Hermann, contralto; Ludwig Weber, bass; with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Otto Ackermann conducting; Columbia 2 sides LP). For the Vienna company, singing Der Rosenkavalier is a matter of doing what comes naturally. Outstanding: Soprano Seefried's Octavian in the second-act love duet with Sophie (Soprano Schwarzkopf). Recording: good...