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Three of the Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra's best performances in recent years are now available on LP records, Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony, Piston's Third, and Bach's Triple Concerto, all highlights of Russell Stanger's first season as conductor of the orchestra, deserve--and have received--top-notch recordings of professional calibre...
Those who heard last season's opening concert will remember the orchestra's electrifying performance of the Shostakovich masterpiece, and the recently-released recording belongs in every library of modern music. The only notceable difference between this and the standard Shostakovich version lies in the string playing, which is a bit shaky (especially in the first movement...
...Shostakovich: Concerto, Op. 35 (Eileen Joyce, piano, the Halle Orchestra, Leslie Heward conducting; Columbia, 1 side LP). The Prokofiev concerto's other side, very Russian in style if not in material. Recording: good...
...began the fulfillment of Serge Koussevitzky's great dream. Composers in both Europe and the U.S. soon learned that in Boston, if nowhere else, their music could get a sympathetic hearing. Nearly every program Koussy scheduled included pieces by such contemporary foreign composers as Sibelius, Stravinsky, Prokofiev and Shostakovich, and such Americans as Aaron Copland, Roy Harris, Walter Piston, Howard Hanson, William Schuman and Samuel Barber...
...Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony was one of the orchestra's finest achievements, and their newly-released recording compares quite favorably with the standard Stockowski version. In the Hindemith Concerto, Stanger was not at all bothered by the many complexities of rhythm and harmony which prevail throughout. The same was true of his performance of Piston's Third Symphony. This work, which won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947, is a tough nut to crack. Although not as cerebral as some of the Harvard professor's other creations, it still provides pitfalls for conductor and listener alike. Nevertheless, Piston himself called...