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Don Ewell (Windin' Ball LP). Piano solos patterned after New Orleans' late King Oliver and played in the high honky-tonk tradition; such tunes as Weather Bird Rag and New Orleans Stomp sound almost like the real thing. The third Ewell LP by a young Chicago label.
Montoya (Cook). Eight flaming flamenco guitar solos by the gypsy master, Carlos Montoya. Each number, whether in reflective waltz tempo or a syncopated Bulerias, thrums the gamut from smooth seductiveness to bursts of passion. Carlos Montoya's finest recording.
Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (Chorus and soloists with the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Charles Munch; Victor, 2 LPs). Musical sweet talk in its sweetest, if not most stimulating, performance on records. Included are some meltingly graceful choruses (sung by Harvard and Radcliffe groups) and solos by Contralto Margaret Roggero...
As it went its 60-minute way, alternating solos and choruses. The Confederacy recited the slow, nostalgic Lorena-a Northern song, curiously enough (Chicago, 1857), but later a Southern favorite:
Composer Monteverdi's Vespers and Magnificat, which includes ten of his 70-odd sacred works, begins with a stately blaring of trumpets and trombones, suddenly quiets to let a Latin choral pianissimo float sweetly through the air. In the movements that follow, Monteverdi sings the praises of God; sometimes...