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Paul Hindemith: Sonata for Viola and Piano, Op. 11, No. 4 (William Primrose and Jesús Maria Sanromá; Victor: 4 sides). One of the most beautiful of contemporary viola sonatas, written in 1922, long before Composer Hindemith became a Kulturbolschewist...
Beethoven: Sonata No. 21 in C Major (Walter Gieseking, pianist; Columbia : 5 sides...
...Chopin: Sonata in B Minor, Op. 58 (Alexander Brailowsky. pianist; Victor: 6 sides). With the Beethoven and Schumann above, a top-notch addition to the list of recorded piano music...
Bach Recital (E. Power Biggs, playing the Bach Organ at the Germanic Museum, Cambridge, Mass.: Technichord:* 10 sides). On Harvard's limpid-toned 18th-Century facsimile organ (TIME, March 21), Organist Biggs makes Bach sparkle. Contains a Bach-Vivaldi concerto, Trio Sonata No. 1 and the "St. Anne" Fugue...
...especially old Charlie Chaplin films), he looks back upon his film debut in Moonlight Sonata as an intensely uncomfortable experience. "There were too many repetitions and too many lights. I can only play at ease in subdued light." At the radio, over which he has made only two broadcasts, he practically spits: "It is killing music and musicians. I don't believe it [helps to make people more musical than they are]. It just robs them of any possible personal musical activity and of their musical keenness; it casts a spell of laziness on them." (Nevertheless, Critic Paderewski...