Word: mozarts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS NOS. 19 AND 20 (Columbia). The rapport between Pianist Rudolf Serkin and Conductor George Szell dates back to their childhood in Vienna, but seldom have they made more of it than in this nonpareil performance of Mozart in his gayest (19) and blackest (20) moods...
...sacred music in Memorial Church. The quality of the combination was something less than the sum of the quality of the Choir and the BSO, because the two compositions the orchestra played alone hardly matched the two works sung by the choir, Brahms' Fest- und Gedenksprueche, Op. 109 and Mozart's Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento...
While the choir's basses sounded a bit muddy in the Brahms, one could have no complaints about the Mozart. The Litaniae began with the most cheerful imaginable Kyrie eleison and soloists Melanic Adams and Judith Press, who, it is good to note, have moved up successfully from Gilbert and Sullivan to God. The truly fine singing of the evening was done by Florence Staplin, soprano; her certainty of intonation, breath control, phrasing, and tone quality should serve as a model for her fellow soloists...
REQUIEM MASS IN D MINOR (RCA Victor) was left unfinished when Mozart died at 35, and Conductor Erich Leinsdorf chose it as a symbolic tribute to the late President John F. Kennedy. This superb recording was made by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with a 180-voice choir and the extraordinary, majestic drawl of Richard Cardinal Gushing, in a solemn pontifical requiem Mass in Boston's Holy Cross Cathedral. Proceeds from the record sale will go to the John F. Kennedy Memorial Library fund...
...rest of the plot, hélas, acts nowhere near so sensibly. Belmondo plays the bland best friend of Maurice (Serge Reggiani), a ferret-faced hood who bumps off a fence to get the loot from the big Avenue Mozart jewel robbery. Then, on Maurice's next job, somebody tips the gendarmes. Who? Is Belmondo le doulos, the stoolie? It looks that way until Belmondo uses the Mozart swag to triple-cross a gangland czar, gets Maurice sprung from jail, and splits a pile of G notes with his old copain. It takes a long flashback...