Word: polydor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bartok: Concerto No. 2 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox-Polydor, 2 sides, LP). First recording of this great work, which the late Bela Bartok composed in the same period as the brilliant and bold Quartet No. 4. Stubbornly unrelenting in its harmonies and fierce rhythms, it is sterner stuff than the later Concerto No. 3. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes gives it a powerful performance. Recording: excellent...
Berg: Lyric Suite (Galimir String Quartet; Vox-Polydor, 8 sides). In this suite, one of his last works, the late Alban Berg (TIME, May 31) put his teacher Arnold Schonberg's theories to test, came up with perhaps the best work yet composed in twelve-tone technique. That still doesn't make it very listenable to ordinary unpracticedears. Performance: excellent. Recording : excellent...
...shipment of HMV discs; McKenna's has already received 1000 HMV records, including such choice items as the Schnabel Beethoven Sonata Society sets, the Fischer recordings of the Bach 48 Preludes and Fugues, and songs from the Wintereisse sung by Gerhard Husch; and both of the stores have the Polydor version of the Missa Solemnjs, performed by the Berlin Philharmonic and chorus...