Word: rachmaninoff
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Berkshire Festival*(Sat. 9:30 p.m., ABC). Serge Koussevitzky conducting the Boston Symphony in Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No, 2 in C Minor, Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe, second suite. Pianist Eugene List, soloist...
...doesn't cost him a cent. He has recorded Nutcracker Suite (an album of eight sides), Serenade for Strings and the theme of the Sixth ("Pathétique") Symphony, titled Now and Forever, with lyrics ("So it was fated, two hearts are mated . . ."*). He also recorded Grieg and Rachmaninoff piano concertos and last week did Dingbat, the Singing Cat, a dance perversion of Prokofiev's Peter and the Wolf. Says Freddy admiringly: "Tchaikovsky is the most commercial of all the classic writers." Martin believes there should be some honor among thieves of classical themes, and thinks...
...Rachmaninoff: Concerto No. 2 for Piano and Orchestra (Gyorgy Sandor and the New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 8 sides). A workmanlike reading of a vapid but pleasant score. Performance: good...
...Rachmaninoff's Isle of the Dead, Opus 29 (M M 599) is the composer's symphonic interpretation of Arnold Boecklin's painting of the same name. Its almost pathological mourning is excellently portrayed by Dimitri Mitropoulos and the Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, whose interpretation of Rachmaninoff is slightly more authentic than Koussevitzky's, which was released during the winter, Recording is fairly good...
...Glazounoff and Caesar Ciu, Kalinikoff, Rachmaninoff...