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...DEFINITIVE PIAF (Capitol; 2 LPs) consists of 22 fine performances, including La Vie en Rose and La Goualante de Pauvre Jean. Piaf celebrates the joys of love in a voice already pregnant with sorrow and then suffers gallantly the heartbreak she knew was coming. After all, "without a lover, one is nothing...
HANDEL: THE TWELVE CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 6 (4 LPs; Angel). Using the same basic means- two violins and a cello set against a small orchestra- Handel achieved widely different moods. Yehudi Menuhin plays one of the violins in the trio and conducts the Bath Festival Orchestra with the same scholarly fidelity and high musical spirits that he displayed in his recent recording of the Water Music...
VERDI: REQUIEM (2 LPs; Angel). When Verdi wrote his Requiem, most critics complained that it was too passionate and sensuous, but one sympathizer de fended him. Italians have their own emo tional habits, he argued, and should be allowed to "talk to the dear Lord in the Italian language." Conductor Carlo Mario Giulini does so here, and it is unlikely that anyone could be more eloquent. He does not set the Dies Irae ablaze as Toscanini did, but his performance has a steady incandescence. Honors also go to London's Philharmonia Orchestra, its huge chorus, and the four soloists...
...PLAY OF HEROD (2 LPs; Decca) is a 12th century music drama reconstructed from a manuscript belonging to the French Benedictine monastery of Fleury. It begins with the archangel's announcement of the birth of Christ and ends when the holy family returns to Galilee after the slaying of the innocents. With its chanted Latin lines, the music sounds strange to 20th century ears-and might seem a trifle odd to medieval ghosts as well, for although the melodies were clearly indicated, rhythms and instruments were not. Scholars aided by a grant from the Ford Foundation prepared the work...
...ever have pop singles sold as fast as they have in the last weeks of summer. Since the popularity of a 45 often attaches itself to the LP from which it came or which it hastily inspires, sales of albums too are soaring. Some of the fast-moving LPs, all lifted up the charts by a two-minute tune...