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...guidance of Manager John Reid, 26, who also handles Elton John, Queen has become the monarch of British rock. A few weeks ago, Bohemian Rhapsody, a six-minute cut that mingles introspection with Gilbert and Sullivan operatics, hit the top of the British music charts. Queen's fourth LP, A Night At The Opera (Elektra), has passed the million-seller mark worldwide. Last week the group began a six-week tour of 21 U.S. cities...
Through its affiliation with Russia's Melodiya label, Columbia has just issued Berman's version of Liszt's twelve Transcendental Etudes, the twelve-year-old double-LP set that firmly established his reputation among record collectors. This is music that, for pure pianistic difficulty, begins where the Chopin Etudes leave off; rarely has it sounded more lyrical...
...lullabies of a John McCormack or the beery ballads of the Clancy Brothers. "No Mother Machree and all that sort of garbage," says Moloney. As can be heard on their new LP, Chieftains 5 (Island Records), or the Barry Lyndon sound-track album (Warner Bros.), the Chieftains' music consists of dances and airs played on tin whistles (surprisingly debonair in sound), bones (animal), the bodhran (a goatskin drum), fiddles, harps, an oboe and, most glorious of all, the Irish bagpipes, more precisely known as the uilleann (elbow) pipes. Unlike Scottish bagpipes, which are breath-blown, the Irish pipes...
...first visits there in the late 1960s. The orchestra's principal guest conductor since 1972, Davis is the one who most regularly gets the B.S.O. to play like the great romantic and post-romantic ensemble it used to be-and still is, in the right hands. This LP is Davis' first with the B.S.O. and the start of a projected set of the seven Sibelius symphonies. It is a stunning accomplishment. The careful balance between repose and tension, stateliness and Nordic surge, quiet and mountainous climaxes, makes these the best versions of both works. Philips records closer...
...first glance, RCA's SelectaVision and Philips-MCA's Disco-Vision look virtually identical. Both systems use 12-in. LP-sized discs that play for 30 minutes* on a side on high-speed turntables. Each is connected to the standard TV set by simply attaching a pair of wires to the antenna leads. There the similarities end. Behind the systems are entirely different technologies; the records used by one cannot be played on the turntables of the other...