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...Boston Symphony, chorus and soloists conducted by Charles Munch; Victor, 3 LPs). The smoldering romantic score, excitingly fanned by Berlioz Specialist Munch...
Brahms: Orchestral Music (New York Philharmonic-Symphony conducted by Bruno Walter; Columbia, 4 LPs...
Puccini: Tosco (La Scala Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Victor de Sabata; Angel, 2 LPs). The familiar, gaudy music bursts into flame when Soprano Maria Callas digs into...
...Roger B. Lustrand, a bachelor, "having discovered that most of the children on his Christmas list possess large collections of such records as Quacky Clarinet and Otto the Ophicleide*. . . makes a habit of bringing them LPs of the most recondite sort of music: Schoenberg, neoclassic Stravinsky, or Varèse ... A few of the modern parents in Roger's circle actually rear their children on such music. For them, Lustrand thoughtfully provides a present of the Terry the Timpani variety, the most banal he can find, which inevitably becomes the favorite item in the nursery library...
Falla: La Vida Breve (Victoria de los Angeles, Emilio Paya; Barcelona Opera Symphony conducted by Ernesto Halffter; Victor, 2 LPs). Written when he was nearly 30 (in 1905), this opera was chosen by Composer de Falla himself as his Op. 1. It starts as leisurely as a siesta, builds its tale of faithless love and sudden death (of a broken heart) to a warm climax. Soprano de los Angeles sings like a bird...