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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Glenn Gould, pianist; the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia, mono and stereo). Beethoven's symmetrically balanced dialogue between piano and orchestra emerges in a muscular, energetic and relentlessly logical reading. Pianist Gould and Conductor Bernstein work their bril liant moves like a pair of lifelong chess opponents who anticipate each other by the shift of a pawn...
Haydn: Four Divertimenti for Baryton, Viola and Violincello (Salzburger Barytontrio; Archive, mono). These four trios, written by Haydn for his patron...
Bartok: Music for String Instruments, Percussions and Celesta, and Frank Martin: Petite Symphonie Concertante (Albert Fuller, harpsichord; Gloria Agostini. harp; Mitchell Andrews, piano; Leopold Stokowski conducting; Capitol, mono and stereo). Both Composers Bartok and Martin anticipated the dreams of the stereo engineers by calling for strings divided in equal groups on either side of the conductor. The resulting spread of sound is interesting, but less so than Stokowski's fine performance. Even with a pickup orchestra, his Bartok glows with tonal colors as weird and arresting as an electrical storm, and his vigorous reading of Martin has a fine...
Mahler: Symphony No. 4 (Lisa Delia Casa; the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Fritz Reiner; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). Even in the flood of Mahler-year recordings, Conductor Reiner's brilliant, surgically clean reading of the Fourth is a standout. Under his baton, the massive Mahler sonorities remain remarkably clear and unclotted, and what often smacks of bombast in other performances emerges as music of dignity and grandeur. Soprano Delia Casa sings the folklike melody of the fourth movement with warmth and charm...
Delia (Delia Reese; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). In a style that is not pretty and voice that is not sweet, one of the most exciting of the newer girl singers expresses her rather tigerish devotions in numbers such as If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight and You're Driving Me Crazy. There is a growling, brassy quality under even the floating notes, and the words and phrases are often bitten off or stretched into a kind of slurring leer, but at her best Singer Reese projects a vivid image-that of a tender roughneck...