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...Prokofiev: Suite from The Love for Three Oranges (French National Symphony Orchestra, Roger Désormière conducting; Capitol, 1 side LP). The six-part instrumental version of Prokofiev's splendid-nonsense opera is bouncy and engaging. Performance and recording: good...
Oistrakh proved to his hearers that the rating was deserved. He warmed up with Mozart's Sonata in B Flat Major (K.454), concluded the first half of the program with a faultless performance of Prokofiev's poetic Sonata in B Flat. Oistrakh conquered the most difficult passages with effortless technique, played with such feeling and clarity that the audience cheered him back for six curtain calls...
...Prokofiev: Concerto No. 3 (Dimitri Mitropoulos, pianist, conducting the Robin Hood Dell Orchestra of Philadelphia; Columbia, 1 side LP). The gifted Mitropoulos gives himself a successful double workout with this combination of beauty and bombast. Recording: good...
Shostakovich: Concerto, Op. 35 (Eileen Joyce, piano, the Halle Orchestra, Leslie Heward conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). The Prokofiev concerto's other side, very Russian in style if not in material. Recording: good...
Thus began the fulfillment of Serge Koussevitzky's great dream. Composers in both Europe and the U.S. soon learned that in Boston, if nowhere else, their music could get a sympathetic hearing. Nearly every program Koussy scheduled included pieces by such contemporary foreign composers as Sibelius, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and such Americans as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, William Schuman and Samuel Barber...