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...piano he turned to remark: "When Stalin heard me play this he signed the protocol at Potsdam." The piano was not in good tune and Harry Truman was not in his best musical form. He confessed that he had finished the Minuet with a few bars of a Mozart sonata. Then there were autographs to sign-from a toy bear to a WAVE's leave papers...
Beethoven: Sonata No. 7 in C Minor (Yehudi Menuhin, violin; Hephzibah Menuhin, piano; Victor, 8 sides). The first 5,000 of these albums were erroneously labeled Sonata No. 2; red-faced Victor is now trying to correct its wrong red labels. Under either label it is the Seventh, and an agile brother & sister act. Performance: excellent...
Shostakovich: Sonata for Cello and Piano, Op. 40 (Gregor Piatigorsky and Valentin Pavlovsky; Columbia; 6 sides). Rambling, facile, second-rate Shostakovich. Performance and recording: good...
Schubert: Sonata No. 9, Op. 120 (Robert Casadesus, pianist; Columbia; 3 sides). Delightfully lyric Schubert, affectionately played. Recording: excellent...
Julius Reubke: Sonata for Organ in C Minor (E. Power Biggs; Victor; 6 sides). Composer Reubke, a star pupil of Franz Liszt, died at 24. His Sonata turns out to be a pleasing, romantic work. Performance good, recording good...