Word: rachmaninoff
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...between nine performances, or maybe it was twelve, of Rachmaninoff's Second Piano Concerto, "I've Always Loved You" concerns itself with the silliest three people of recent screen history. If it had been played by the Marx Bros., the picture might have had a certain drollness. As it is, played in grim earnest by Philip Dorn, Catherine McLeod, and William Carter, it is slightly hideous...
...Rachmaninoff: Songs (Jennie Tourel, accompanied by Erich Itor Kahn; Columbia, 6 sides). Mezzo-Soprano Tourel's eerie interpretation of Pushkin, Alexis Tolstoy and Victor Hugo verses is outstanding in the current rash of Rachmaninoff. Performance: excellent...
Augmenting fine photography, Coward uses the technique of the dream, using the same scene in the beginning objective, and seen in the end through the thoughts of Celia Johnson, finally weakened by her tragedy. The music, consisting only of Rachmaninoff's second Piano Concerto, is apt to become tiring after an hour of repetition...
Already, many of Rachmaninoff's long time admirers felt the same way about the Concerto that the late composer-pianist himself felt about his much-mangled Prelude in C Sharp Minor. He once snapped: "They can play it any way they choose just so long as they do not play it where I can hear...
...Always Loved You (Republic) is a pretentious soap opera-with Technicolor and music-made by a studio which normally earns its living making simple, workmanlike horse opera. It will delight Rachmaninoff admirers with repeated fine performances of the Piano Concerto No. 2. It will also please moviegoers who enjoy a good cry when an emotionally rattled heroine makes life miserable for herself and her family...