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TENNESSEE WILLIAMS: THE GLASS MENAGERIE (2 LPs: Caedmon). First of a new series that aims to record "the masterpieces of all the great playwrights" from Aeschylus to lonesco. Though it is a rather fragile choice, the play's apartment setting and small cast both lend themselves easily to recording. Montgomery Clift is the warehouse "Shakespeare," and Julie Harris plays the gentle keeper of the glass menagerie. Jessica Tandy does creditably as the genteel chatterbox mother, but the role created by Laurette Taylor seems to have shrunk. And David Wayne sounds too grandfatherly as the Gentleman Caller. Nonetheless, their overall...
...ALBUM OF MODERN POETRY (3 LPs: Gryphon). Anthologist Oscar Williams has selected 76 short works by 45 British and American poets, a revised and reengineered version of their original readings for the Library of Congress. The album's theme, Williams explains, is suffering and social involvement-"the passion of modern poetry"-rather than personal love. The selection is personal, sometimes questionable, but stellar nonetheless. It includes T. S. Eliot, Robert Lowell, W. H. Auden, Conrad Aiken, Robert Graves and Archibald MacLeish, plus many others whose voices will not be heard again, notably William Carlos Williams, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke...
PUCCINI: LA BOHEME (2 LPs; Angel...
BIZET: CARMEN (3 LPs; RCA Victor...
...GOLDEN AGE OF THE ORGAN (2 LPs; Columbia). E. Power Biggs goes on a busman's holiday in Germany and Holland, playing with artistry the twelve surviving baroque organs of Master Builder Arp Schnitger (1648-1719). The tones of Schnitger's organs are exceptionally bright and buoyant, wrong for the romantics but wonderful for the music Biggs plays: Bach (including the Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) and chorale preludes by the modern Berlin composer Ernst Pepping...