Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Album of Early Choral Music (Trapp Family Choir; Victor: 10 sides). Salzburg's singing family (TIME, Dec. 19) warbles a program of quaint archaic vocal chamber music...
Pick-a-Rib (Victor). Benny Goodman's Quartet, plus Johnny Kirby on the doghouse fiddle, covering two sides with a joyous boogie-woogie...
Mozart: Die Zauberflote (Berlin Philharmonic, Sir Thomas Beecham conducting, with Tiana Lemnitz. Erna Berger, Helge Roswaenge, Gerhard Hüsch and other artists; Victor: 2 volumes, 3-7 sides). The 18th-Century Masonic symbolism ol Mozart's great, quaint, rollicking fantasy-opera The Magic Flute is pretty vague to present-day audiences. But the music is some of the most beautiful Mozart wrote. Its first complete recording, less perfectly tooled but more spectacular than the Glyndebourne Don Giovanni (TIME, Oct. 3), is the record of the month...
Satie: Gymnopédie Nos. I & 2. (Philadelphia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski conducting: Victor). French musical impressionism had three inventors: Claude Debussy, Erik Satie and Ernest Fanelli. Today only Debussy is remembered as a front ranker. But these two little pieces, orchestrated by Debussy, are as deft and fresh as Seurat water colors...
Purcell-Barbirolli: Suite for Strings, Horns, Flutes & English Horn (New York Philharmonic-Symphony, John Barbirolli conducting: Victor: 4 sides). Anthology in modern orchestral dress of music by England's great 17th-Century master. Brilliantly played and recorded...