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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brahms: Complete String Quartets, Op. 51, Nos. 1 and 2, Op. 67 (The Cleveland Quartet; RCA, 2 LPs, $6.98). Brahms at his melodic, instrumental and unpretentious best in a notable debut recording by a four-year-old group that was formed at Marlboro, Vt., and now is quartet-in-residence at the State University of New York at Buffalo. The Clevelanders (all in their early 30s) play with a rich, ruddy tone and a youthful surge that makes Brahms' difficult string writing (all those double stops, for example) seem as natural as a song...
Nine years ago, Taylor and his wife Theodora moved from Harlem to a five-room cooperative apartment in predominantly white Riverdale. There Taylor likes to relax by sampling the 5,000 LPs and tapes that line one wall (with considerably more pleasure than when he was a deejay looking for broadcast material) and watching reruns of westerns on TV. The Taylors' friends include more doctors, judges and art directors than musicians. Evenings out usually mean a French restaurant and a play or concert-or one of Taylor's innumerable board meetings...
...enough these days of Alice Cooper (the name of both the leader and the group) The group's current twelve-week US tour will probably gross more than $4.5 million before it winds up next week end in New York's Madison Square Garden. Alice Cooper LPs like Killer, Love It To Death and School's Out have each sold more than $1,000,000 worth of copies. The most recent, Billion Dollar Babies, is already a $2,000,000 baby after only four months. Leading department stores round the nation are now stocking the Alice Cooper...
...Harry Nilsson, RCA; $5.98). Are there any surprises left in the record business? Two LPs after his auspicious transformation from pop poet to hard rocker, Nilsson steps forward as crooner of a dozen old goldies like As Time Goes By and I Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now. Such an exercise in nostalgia is a precious fancy that Nilsson manages to bring off because his crooning is so fancy-free. He has an original crooning style that is notable for its freedom from the Sinatra mannerisms that have intimidated a generation of pop balladeers. Gordon Jenkins' luxurious string...
Twelve Etudes, Opus 10, and Fantasia in F Minor, Opus 49; Twelve Etudes, Opus 25, and Scherzo No. 3 in C-Sharp Minor, Opus 39 (Aleksander Slobodyanik, Melodiya/Angel; 2 LPs; $5.98 each). Combining the right degree of bravura virtuosity with an elegant lyricism, Slobodyanik, 30, has total control of the giant tone poems. Especially impressive is the hand-crippling D-flat major etude of Opus...