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BENNY GOLSON: FREE (Argo). Golson is a tenor saxophonist of spotless musicality, with a superb rhythm section: Tommy Flanagan, piano; Ron Carter, bass; and Art Taylor, drums...
...year to produce opera any way he likes. As long as politics do not disturb the opera, Felsenstein disregards what he cannot help seeing in the streets. The world may have been outraged when the Berlin Wall went up, but Felsenstein was furious. What would become of his tenor? Could the West Berliners in his chorus and orchestra still cross the border for morning rehearsals? With bureaucratic agility developed by directing state opera houses for both the Nazis and the Communists, Felsenstein swept past the crisis with a flurry of bargains and deals, and the Komische Oper was ready...
With Charles Bressler as tenor soloist, Dunn and the Festival Orchestra recreated Cantata 55 ("Ich armer Suendenknecht") and three arias chosen from other cantatas. Bressler, who might be called a coloratura tenor, apparently found no difficulty in notes an octave above middle C; lower, however, his voice was so mobile that it seemed thin at any one instant. Dunn chose slightly strange tempos in the closing work, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5: the second movement was faster, the third slower than usual...
...best things, however, are his solo playlets. In one routine, he gets inside the human body and runs it like a ship: "Now hear this. Now hear this. All glands-secrete, secrete." Once an aspiring opera singer, Manna scores another sequence with his noteworthy tenor as he graduates the barber of Seville from barber school with a Phi Beta and has him refuse to part a man's hair from ear to ear lest people whisper into the fellow's nose. And in an inspired version of the death of Caesar, he has Caesar standing in the Forum...
...wiener schnitzel, but 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...