Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Swing Session with Benny Goodman (Victor). Twenty-four minutes of the most serious hot music now being blasted: eight sides, largely swing classics (Blue Room, 'S Wonderful...
Puccini: La Bohème (Chorus and orchestra of the La Scala Opera Company, Umberto Berrettoni conducting, with Beniamino Gigli, Licia Albanese and other artists; Victor: 26 sides). Composer Puccini's most popular opera, with famed...
Mozart: Concerto In C Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 467 (London Symphony, Malcolm Sargent conducting. with Artur Schnabel; Victor: 8 sides; Concerto in C Minor for Piano and Orchestra, K. 491 (London Philharmonic, Lawrence Collingwood conducting, with Edwin Fischer; Victor: 8 sides), and Concerto in D Major for Piano and Orchestra, K. 537 (Wanda Landowska with Chamber Orchestra; Walter Goehr conducting; Victor: 7 sides). Choice between the month's three Mozart piano concertos is hard to make. Each of the three is one of Mozart's finest works, each is done in top-notch style...
Beethoven: Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 74 (Budapest String Quartet; Victor: 8 sides). Quartet in E Flat Major, Op. 127 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 10 sides), and Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132 (Busch Quartet; Victor: 11 sides). When gloomy Philosopher Oswald Spengler was casting about for the top artistic achievement of Western Civilization he included the string quartets (not the symphonies) of Beethoven. These three top achievements are given carefully tooled performances by two of the finest contemporary ensembles...
Boccherini: Concerto in B Flat Major for Cello and Orchestra (London Symphony, Sir Landon Ronald conducting, with Pablo Casals; Victor: 6 sides). Sixty-one-year-old Casals, playing one of the most venerable of the standard cello concertos, proves that he is still the world's No. 1 cellist; accompaniment, spotty...