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...romantic nonetheless. Published posthumously, the five solos, two duets and final quartet of Schumann's second Spanish-cycle are recorded for the first time. The two-piano team of Arthur Gold and Robert Fizdale share high honors with the singers, notably Soprano Lois Marshall and Tenor Leopold Simoneau. On the other side of the record are Brahms's Liebeslieder Waltzes, which are also written for four hands and four voices...
...Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra; Angel, 3 LPs, mono and stereo) that lacks the fire of Beecham, the vocal glories of some of the Ormandy passages, emerges as painstaking rather than impassioned. Perhaps the best performance of the crop is furnished by Hermann Scherchen (Pierrette Alarie, Nan Merriman, Leopold Simoneau, Richard Standen; the Vienna State Opera Orchestra and the Vienna Academy Chorus; Westminster, 4 LPs, stereo), which is marked by some lovely, light-textured choral passages, a translucent orchestral sound and a movingly meditative...
...Orpheus, normally sung by a contralto. (Gluck himself wrote the role for a male contralto, later rearranged it for tenor in Paris, where castrati singers were frowned upon.) Of the two versions, Epic's (in French) is more authentic historically, but less effective, chiefly because Canadian Tenor Leopold Simoneau's silver-hued voice seems less moving in the role of the suffering Orpheus than the lyric baritone of Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, imaginatively cast by Decca in its German-language version. The supporting casts in both albums are excellent: Sopranos Suzanne Danco and Pierette Alarie (Epic), Maria Stader...
...round out its imposing operatic catalogue. London has also released The Marriage of Figaro (4 LPs), with Hilde Gueden, Danco and Siepi, and the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Erich Kleiber, and The Magic Flute (3 LPs), with Gueden, Wilma Lipp, Simoneau and Berry, conducted by Karl Bohm. Both are first-rate performances and, as a bonus, the albums contain the complete musical scores...
...unique personality, ranging from a Rotarian through an Odd Fellow to a member of the American Association of Carbonated Beverage Manufacturers who writes vaudeville skits and trains prizefighters for a hobby, Simoneau was three days ago a source of serious perturbation to Louise Piscopo, the lady at the Information desk...