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From the beginning, Columbia Records offered to manufacture LPs for smaller companies. New labels blossomed like dandelions (127 at latest count). Since they had no hope of competing for famous-name performers with big powers like RCA Victor, smaller companies went scouting for unusual music and new names. The music lover got the breaks...
...Wiley Sings Irving Berlin and Vincent Youmans (with Stan Freeman and Cy Walter, duo-pianists; 2 Columbia LPs). Another longtimer, Songstress Wiley has a husky voice that breathes wistfully of the '20s. Her style is confidential; she picks the songs, both gay (Rise 'n Shine, Some Sunny Day) and melancholy (Suppertime, Time on My Hands), that are best suited to her voice...
Record collectors had good news this month: the first issue on American LPs of classical recordings by RCA Victor's British associate, the Gramophone Co., Ltd. ("His Master's Voice"). Some of the H.M.V. recordings are old, but British technique was always good and the sound quality is acceptable...
...single concert in Honolulu last spring (TIME, June 2), Pianist Walter Gieseking has not attempted to play in the U.S. since the unseemly hassle over his Manhattan appearance in 1949. But he is still available on records, as Columbia emphasized last week with a release of six Gieseking LPs...
...past (for Polydor), but the Decca disks are new and marked by lustrous tone and silent surfaces. Kempff plays with splendid seriousness in the diabolical Hammerklavier, delivers such lighter sonatas as Op. 2, No. 3 with a hint of mischief. Twelve of his performances have been released on six LPs; the rest will be out next month...