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...fantastic in a dozen of the best-liked Gershwin gems. There are times when the tune is hard to find, but Peterson's feeling for mood and invention never falters. In the same series and with the same fine sidemen (Guitarist Barney Kessel and Bassist Ray Brown) are LPs of Cole Porter, Duke Ellington, and Irving Berlin tunes...
...show that jazz can be a two-way street, RCA Victor has now imported some from Italy, Sweden and England to launch a new album series, Around the World in Jazz (3 LPs). As might be expected, the Roman New Orleans Jazz Band sticks to Dixieland, noodles around happily with such authentic material as Muskrat Ramble, St. James Infirmary and Tin Roof Blues. Stockholm's Arne Domnerus and Orchestra take a page out of Charlie Parker's bop book. Two English bands play in the old razzle-dazzle style of Ted Lewis. Chief merit of all three importations...
Rimsky-Korsakov: May Night (Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Bolshoi Opera, conducted by Vassily Nebolsin; Vanguard, 3 LPs). For opera lovers looking for a new but basically old-fashioned work. The plot, derived from Gogol stories, is full of romantic love and farcical confusion, but has a happy ending...
Rossini: The Barber of Seville (Victoria de los Angeles, Nicola Monti, Nicola Rossi-Lemeni; Milan Symphony Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Tullio Serafin; Victor, 3 LPs). A fine performance and elegant recorded sound make this the first fully satisfactory LP of The Barber. De los Angeles' voice, while not so flexible as Pons's in her heyday, is brilliant and accurate in coloratura passages. Monti is a lyrical and affecting tenor, and Rossi-Lemeni's bass is almost too sumptuous for his tomfoolery as Basilio...
Mussorgsky: Boris Godunov (Boris Christoff; the Russian Choirs of Paris and the French National Radio Orchestra, conducted by Issay Dobrowen; H.M.V., 4 LPs). Bulgarian Basso Christoff has been denied a visa to the U.S. (he flunked his McCarran test), but, from the recorded sound of his voice, he belongs with the very best of living bassos. Christoff gives the role of Boris magnificent power and dignity as well as splendid singing, and the whole production is outstanding...