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RAVEL: DAPHNIS AND CHLOË, SUITE NO. 2, and ROUSSEL: BACCHUS AND ARIADNE, SUITE NO. 2 (RCA Victor). For his first recording with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, new Conductor Jean Martinon chose flashy and familiar works-two Dionysian ballets by fellow Frenchmen. Orchestra and conductor show up well, from the airy pianissimos that signal the break of day in the Ravel to the wildly pounding bacchanalia that climax the Roussel...
...period of transition that could last another three or four years until things settle down. Before his resignation last spring, Fritz Reiner, 74, built the Chicago into one of the best-disciplined orchestras in the world. Chicago's new man, who will arrive next season, is Jean Martinon, 53, a composer and conductor and presently the General Music Director in Düsseldorf. Martinon, a Frenchman, will inherit the most Germanic orchestra outside Germany...
Boston Symphony (Mon. 8:05 p.m., NBC). Guest Conductor: Jean Martinon...
...virtuoso performance, rippling through the runs with the clear articulation of woodwinds, melting into the passionate sections with sharply contrasting warmth. The players neatly sorted out the intricacies of Martinet's twelve-tone Variations and romped through Milhaud's dancy, polytonal Quartet No. 13. They spectacularly dramatized Martinon's Quartet, Op. 43, with its melodramatic outbursts, its massed tonal tumbles, its lovely patterns in the adagio movement and its one incredible moment of whistling, fluting overtones...
...dance out the love he did not put into words. The old Marquis de Cuevas, 70, the world's biggest-spending balletomane, agreed to contribute his own ballet company to the project; the chorus and orchestra of the Concerts Colonne were engaged to work under Conductor Jean Martinon. The Louvre authorities, fearful of fire, were tougher to persuade: they held out for a full month, until the committee guaranteed to fireproof the outdoor stage, to station a fire truck at the entrance and a fireboat alongside in the Seine...