Word: rodzinskis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wagner: Die Walküre, Duet from Act I, Scene 3; Act III complete (Helen Traubel, soprano; Herbert Janssen, baritone; Emery Darcy, tenor; vocal ensemble of the Metropolitan Opera; the New York Philharmonic-Symphony, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 4 sides, LP). Great music sung by great singers. Conductor Rodzinski gives it the pace and force to make it an exciting performance. Recording: excellent...
Gould: Spirituals for Orchestra (the Philharmonic-Symphony of New York, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Columbia, 6 sides). Composer Morton Gould, a master of syrupy orchestration, has sweetened this music (some of it his own) until it smacks more of cotton candy than hominy grits. Performance and recording: good...
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 (the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Mendelssohn's trip to Scotland was almost as happy musically as his tour to Italy, which produced Symphony No. 4; Rodzinski here gives the "Scotch" a good piping. Recording: fair...
...Australia on a tour and stayed there, giving concerts and perfecting, among other things, his high-elbow bowing technique. In 1941, he came to the U.S., got a job as concertmaster of the Cleveland Orchestra-and gave the Bartok concerto its U.S. premiere. When Cleveland's Conductor Artur Rodzinski took over the New York Philharmonic-Symphony in 1943, he asked Tossy to play it again. That was the beginning. His performance left the New York Herald Tribune's Virgil Thomson "a little gasping. One is not used to this kind of work from violinists...
Strauss: Thus Spake Zarathustra (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Artur Rodzinski conducting; Victor, 9 sides). Though Zarathustra hasn't much to say, Conductor Rodzinski doesn't miss a word. Recording: good...