Word: saxonian
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...satisfying presence of some 20 Soviet divisions at his elbow, Ulbricht runs his puppet nation from an opulent, chandeliered office in Niederschonhausen Palace, onetime residence of the wife of Frederick the Great, in the Pankow section of Berlin. There he puffs black cigars and barks orders in a guttural Saxonian accent that is the butt of gibes among his unwilling subjects. At day's end he retires to a sumptuous fieldstone house in the residential enclave for Communist bigwigs near Liepnitz Lake, where he, his Communist wife Lotte and a 17-year-old daughter share the comforts...
Strauss: Der Rosenkavalier (Margarete Bäumer and Ursula Richter, sopranos; Tiana Lemnitz, mezzo-soprano; Kurt Böhme, bass; chorus of the Dresden State Opera, the Saxonian State Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe conducting; Urania Records, sides LP). Soprano Bäumer (The Marschallin) has an unpleasant tremolo and Böhme (Ochs) is too growly and guttural; otherwise a middling-good performance. Recording: good...
Einem: Concerto for Orchestra (Saxonian State Orchestra, Karl Elmendorff conducting; Deutsche Grammophon, 6 sides). A grotesque and bombastic try by the composer of the opera Danton's Death (TIME, Aug. 18, 1947). Performance and recording: good...
Bruckner: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat Major (Saxonian State Orchestra, conducted by Karl Bohm; Victor; 18 sides in two volumes; $10). Devout, naive-he gratefully tipped Conductor Hans Richter one thaler (71?) after the first performance of his fourth symphony-Composer Anton Bruckner wrote some of the most prolix symphonies in history. Dresden's orchestra, one of Europe's finest, gives Bruckner's long melodies a fine recording, the only one now available...
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