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...much more esoteric score, Berlioz' symphonic scenes, Harold in Italy. Last week Billboard's music sleuths found the public foraging still farther afield. Among the ten best-selling concert LPs: Cherubini's Symphony in D (Victor), Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 (Columbia), and Vaughan Williams' Pastoral Symphony (London...
...Vaughan Williams: Mass in G Minor (Fleet Street Choir, conducted by T. B. Lawrence; London). A massive and elegiac work, written in 1923 by the dean of British composers. Through masterful maneuvering of block harmonies and medieval modes, he produces an antique flavor appropriate to the subject without once sounding musty...
...William Walton stands second in England's current trinity of famous composers. Less prolific than either 80-year-old Ralph Vaughan Williams or 39-year-old Benjamin Britten, he has turned out some pieces (e.g., his Symphony and Viola Concerto) that are considered better than any of their more celebrated works. In the U.S. he is known for Façade, an impudent accompaniment for Edith Sitwell's eccentric verses; Belshazzar's Feast, a big dramatic choral work; and Orb and Sceptre, a grandiose march commissioned for the coronation. Visiting the U.S. with his Argentine born wife...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Works of Vaughan Williams, Berlioz and Bach...
Married. Ralph Vaughan Williams, 80 dean of Britain's composers (Sinofonia Antartica, Pilgrim's Progress); and Mrs. Ursula Wood, fortyish, widow-writer; both for the second time (his first wife died at 80 in 1951); in London...