Word: lps
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sing songs in regularly recurring cycles that last anywhere from a few minutes to half an hour. During the past two years, Animal Behaviorist Roger Payne and his wife Katy recorded this music of the deep and produced Songs of the Humpback Whale, which sold more than 100,000 LPs. Their second whale record contains the only recorded sounds of the elusive blue whale, as well as the latest hit by a herd of humpbacks-which, the Paynes have discovered, change their song each year. To the accompaniment of lapping waves, the whales sing sorrowful blues solos with a bassoon...
Brahms: The Four Symphonies (Vienna Philharmonic, Karl Böhm conductor, Deutsche Grammophon; 4 LPs); (Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink conductor. Philips; 4 LPs). Both Böhm and Haitink are generally thought of as orthodox conductors, interested in Brahms' Brahms rather than their Brahms. Yet how different these interpretations are. Böhm almost seems schizoid about these essentially well-adjusted symphonies, as though he could not make up his mind whether the dreamy, expansive Furtwängler or the lean, surging Toscanini were right. No such problems with Haitink. His Brahms bristles with muscle and the knowledge...
Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn conductor, Angel; 3 LPs). Previn herewith completes his cycle of the three great Tchaikovsky full-length ballet scores. As with his The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty, he is always conscious of the ingenious nature of the composer's orchestrations, yet never tries to overcome the music's essential dance quality with virtuoso orchestral tricks. A delightful album, and by far the best Swan Lake on the market. William Bender
...movie is ever made about the Carter White House, it will not be hard to score the sound track. The sound of music fairly reverberates through the West Wing almost all day long-and often far into the night. Carter has explored the White House collection of 2,000 LPs-donated by a record-industry group when Richard Nixon was President-and selected a few dozen albums of classical music for his secretary, Susan Clough, to spin on the turntable near her desk. The music is channeled to stereo speakers in Carter's private study so that...
STEVIE WONDER: SONGS IN THE KEY OF LIFE (Tamla/Motown, 2 LPs). A jamboree of songs, composed, sung, played and produced by that one-man music company known as Stevie Wonder...