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...FRANCIS POULENC: SEXTET FOR PIANO AND WINDS (Angel). Prokofiev-like flashes of wit and tipsy abandon brighten the sextet, while the Sonata for Flute and Piano sets afloat a dreamy cantilena, then juggles flashy melodic fragments into thin air, Michel Debost lightly plays the lyrical flute; Jacques Fevrier is the pianist with him and with the Paris Wind Quintet...
...leaders of the great corporations believe that they can compete well against their foreign counterparts and like the prospect of selling more to Germans or Italians. In the business magazine Entreprise, 20 of France's most prominent executives-including Pechiney's Chairman Raoul de Vitry, Rhone-Poulenc's Chairman Wilfred Baumgartner and T.S.F.'s (electronics) Chairman Maurice Ponte-came out in support of the market. In a speech opening Marseille's international trade fair last week, Emile Roche, a leading banker and industrialist, said: "Our economy deserves to be told, clearly and categorically, whether...
...FRENCH PROGRAM (RCA Victor). French piano music has a tendency to sound delicate and slightly frostbitten. Artur Rubinstein breathes warmth and life into it, without ever losing his exquisite urbanity. His tribute to France, his home for much of his life, includes two Intermezzi by his late friend Francis Poulenc and La Vallee des Cloches by Ravel...
...high jinks, though, Fiedler liberally laces his joy juice with headier stuff from Handel, Frescobaldi, Poulenc and Stravinsky. He delights in proclaiming, "I've been accused of making more friends for music than any other conductor. I have no use for those snobs who look down their noses at everything but the most highbrow music. I'm a serious musician, but I don't want to be classified. I'd be bored doing only symphony music...
SONGS OF NED ROREM (Columbia) sung by Regina Sarfaty, Phyllis Curtin and others. Since the death of Poulenc, Indiana-born, 40-year-old Ned Rorem is probably the world's best composer of art songs. Here he puts to music the slithering of Theodore Roethke's Snake, the slow flow of Paul Goodman's The Lordly...