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Mendelssohn: Two-piano Concerto in E Major (Orazio Frugoni & Eduard Mrazek, pianists; Vienna Pro Musica Symphony conducted by Hans Swarowsky; Vox). A bright, attractive score written by Mendelssohn when he was only 15, and unperformed for more than a century. Pianist Frugoni, who tilted with a stubborn Soviet-zone librarian in Germany to bring the long-forgotten music to light (TIME, July 16, 1951), plays his part with high spirits...
...time of his death he was editing material for the Musica Britannica...
Selected singers from the Chorus Pro Musica, the Waltham Music Club Chorus and the Brandeis University Chorus will sing in the chorus...
Spanish Music (Pro Musica Antiqua conducted by Safford Cape; EMS). Nineteen selections from the court music of the days of Ferdinand and Isabella, sung in fine style and played on old instruments (recorder, lute, viols...
Other noteworthy new records: four of Handel's works for Ancient Instruments and Soprano, with Valarie Lamoree and the Pro Musica Antiqua of New York (Esoteric); Haydn's Seasons, with the RIAS Symphony, choirs and soloists conducted by Ferenc Fricsay (Decca. 3 LPs); seven evocations Of Gods and Demons, sung by Bass-Baritone George London (Columbia); Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy, played by the Paris Philharmonic Orchestra under Manuel Rosenthal (Capitol); Howard Swanson's Short Symphony, Franz Litschauer conducting the Vienna State Opera Orchestra (Vanguard); music by Rossini, Cambini and Bonporti, played by the Virtuosi...