Word: lps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Vinay and Giuseppe Valdengo sang as if they were in a state of musical exaltation, and the NBC Symphony's orchestral commentary was both dramatic and tender. Recently, after long refusing, Toscanini agreed to let RCA Victor make records from the monitoring transcription, and last week the three LPs were released. It is probably the Maestro's masterpiece...
Bach: Sonatas and Partitas for Unaccompanied Violin (Jascha Heifetz; Victor, 3 LPs). Master Fiddler Heifetz brings some of the repertory's toughest music to life with his superb confidence and technique. There are a few passages where technique seems uppermost in his mind, but for the most part the slow movements have appealing warmth and the fast ones take off in whirlwinds of color...
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (Chorus and soloists with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch; Victor, 2 LPs). Musical sweet talk in its sweetest, if not most stimulating, performance on records. Included are some meltingly graceful choruses (sung by Harvard and Radcliffe groups) and solos by Contralto Margaret Roggero, Tenor Leslie Chabay and Basso Yi-Kwei...
Columbia Records celebrated the fifth anniversary of LP recordings with self-congratulatory statistics last week. In five years the company has issued 20 million of its own LPs and pressed over a million for independent labels. Best of all, from Columbia's point of view, LPs helped the company account for nearly a quarter of all records sold in 1952, appreciably narrowing the gap which has long existed between Columbia and giant RCA Victor...
...last year's favorites were Beethoven's monumental Ninth Symphony (conducted by Arturo Toscanini) and a much more esoteric score, Berlioz' symphonic scenes, Harold in Italy. Last week Billboard's music sleuths found the public foraging still farther afield. Among the ten best-selling concert LPs: Cherubini's Symphony in D (Victor), Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 (Columbia), and Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony (London...