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...finest concerto recordings-notably the Brahms with Hamilton Harty (1928), the Beethoven with Bruno Walter (1932), the Prokofiev First, Mozart Fourth and the Mendelssohn with Sir Thomas Beecham (1933-35) and, at long last on LP, the Beethoven Violin and Piano Sonatas Nos. 5 and 10 with Artur Schnabel (1948). Though the sound is monaural, it has been restored lovingly and retains much of the warmth that characterized the best of Europe's prewar 78-r.p.m. shellacs...
...more are handsomely recorded on this LP under the supervision of Korngold's producer son George. The record is also the only stereo document currently available of a composer who was one of Europe's most brilliant prodigies half a century ago. When Korngold was 13, Artur Schnabel was playing his piano sonata in Vienna and Berlin. Four years later Conductors Bruno Walter and Otto Klemperer were doing his orchestral works. In 1921, when Korngold was 24, his opera The Dead City was mounted at the Metropolitan Opera, and legendary Soprano Maria Jeritza made her debut...
...complete without a mention of the Boston Philharmonia's Sunday night concert. Under-publicized, under-attended, and at a ridiculously early hour, the Philharmonia with Leon Fleisher turned out a fine orchestral performance, one of the best I've heard this season. The program ranged from Haydn to Schnabel, and was uniformly well played...
...Schnabel's Duodecimet and Haydn's Symphonie Concertante in B-Flat Major formed the balance of the program, each quite well done. The Philharmonia has only one more concert this season, on May 2, and they certainly deserve a better turnout than Sunday's paltry few hundred...
Beethoven: The 32 Piano Sonatas; Claude Frank; 12 LPs (RCA Victrola). Not only the first complete 32 ever recorded in the U.S., but one of the two or three best since Artur Schnabel set the record in the 1930s...