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Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 3 (Glenn Gould, pianist; the Columbia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Bernstein; Columbia, mono and stereo). Beethoven's symmetrically balanced dialogue between piano and orchestra emerges in a muscular, energetic and relentlessly logical reading. Pianist Gould and Conductor Bernstein work their bril liant moves like a pair of lifelong chess opponents who anticipate each other by the shift of a pawn...
Swinging '30s (Earl Bostic and his band; King, mono and stereo). Pleasantly informal arrangements of the songs that are firmly lodged in the consciousness of most adult Americans: Dancing in the Dark, Stars in My Eyes, All the Things You Are. The band swings as loosely as a troupe of sleepy dancers, summoning visions of garlanded proms and lights slowly revolving over the dance floor...
Katyna Ranieri: Italian Love Songs (Capitol, mono and stereo). Florence-born Singer Ranieri offers a selection of Italian pop hits-Volare, Non Dimenticar -giving them the air of tremulous yearning that seems to be part of the Italian climate. The voice is fresh and appealing, the phrasing exact, and the message as obvious as a languorous wink...
Every Inch a Sailor (Oscar Brand; Elektra, mono and stereo). Guitarist Brand offers a largely unprintable tour through the racier passages of Navy mythology in a series of songs sung by the fleet in World War II-Guantanamo Bay, Subdivision Nine, Zamboanga. The cast of female characters includes such wonders as Miss VD of Guam: "Admiral Nimitz gave the order/ Better keep your noses clean/ But Miss VD was waiting/ Like a bloody sex machine...
Delia (Delia Reese; RCA Victor, mono and stereo). In a style that is not pretty and voice that is not sweet, one of the most exciting of the newer girl singers expresses her rather tigerish devotions in numbers such as If I Could Be with You One Hour Tonight and You're Driving Me Crazy. There is a growling, brassy quality under even the floating notes, and the words and phrases are often bitten off or stretched into a kind of slurring leer, but at her best Singer Reese projects a vivid image-that of a tender roughneck...