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...pleasant tuning-up hum of the Philharmonia Orchestra faded away and a hush fell over London's Royal Festival Hall. A tall, slightly stooped figure in a frock coat emerged from behind a yellow curtain. Feet dragging, he made his way to the podium with the help of a heavy walking stick. As the applause thundered down, the man's solemn, craggy face remained expressionless and unseeing as a blind man's. Otto Klemperer, 72, painfully mounted the podium, planted his feet firmly apart, and gave the downbeat for Beethoven's Ninth Symphony...
Schubert: The Death of Lazarus (soloists, the NDR Chorus and the Philharmonia Orchestra of Hamburg. Arthur Winograd conducting; M-G-M). A fine first recording of Schubert's fragmentary oratorio based on the Biblical account of the dead brother of Mary and Martha. Schubert started the work in 1820 when he was 23, abandoned it after barely starting Part II to work on The Magic Harp. Schubert's hushed, haunting melancholy shimmers in this moving performance, illuminated by the powerful NDR Chorus and the rich singing of Soprano Barbara Troxell fas Mary...
...This fact has grim significance for the new tenants, almost all of them refugees from the Russian terror in Hungary. Last week, led by Conductor Zoltan Rozsnyai, 31, onetime associate conductor of the Budapest Philharmonic, Hungary's refugee musicians were starting a tour to prove that the new "Philharmonia Hungarica" has become a symphony orchestra in more than name...
...last week's Vienna concert, the Philharmonia opened with a somewhat lackluster "Egmont" Overture, then launched with enthusiasm and devotion into Zoltan Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus, whose words, based on the 55th Psalm, were written during the 16th century Turkish rule in Hungary ("O hear the voice of my complaining/Terrors of death are fallen upon...
...Philharmonia Hungarica hopes to take a 12-to 15-week swing through the U.S. some time next spring or summer. Another high hope: adoption by some U.S. city...