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...overlaid his simple story with symbolic parallels, some mythological and some psychological, that are more difficult to photograph. Stephen, for example, is Telemachus, Bloom is Ulysses, Molly is Penelope, and the events of the day correspond, in ways both witty and profound, with the episodes of Homer's Odyssey...
Some sound new investments for the classical music lover have appeared on the market recently. Columbia and London have added low-priced labels-Odyssey and Stereo Treasury-that offer top quality but somewhat older recordings for about $2.50 a record. Capitol has more exciting news. It has succeeded in signing a contract for all Soviet artists and orchestras, and has rushed its technicians to Russia lest any foreign sounds creep in. The label is Melodiya-Angel, and the first issues are excellent...
HAYDN: SYMPHONIES NOS. 1, 2 and 3 (Odyssey). The late Max Goberman was a protean figure on the New York musical scene. He was pit conductor for West Side Story, and his ambition was to record all 104 symphonies of Haydn. This record is the elegant overture to the unfinished project-a crisp, clear reading that points up Haydn's melodic questions and answers, the asides and one-liners that crowd his scores...
BEETHOVEN: EMPEROR CONCERTO (Odyssey). Walter Gieseking made the recording in London shortly before his death in 1956, and it is a fitting final statement by a major interpreter of Beethoven. Herbert von Karajan conducts the Philharmonia Orchestra in a fiery, romantic interpretation of the masterpiece...
...walls again, this time in Washington's National Gallery. On view were a Rembrandt 1643 self-portrait (worth upwards of $750,000), a Gérard ter Borch, one of Rembrandt's contemporaries, and a work by the 18th century German, Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein. Their strange odyssey bespeaks of both the awe and the ignorance that surround great art works. It also suggests that masterpieces, like people, can be D.P.s...