Word: victor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Jean Françaix: Concerto for Piano and Orchestra (Paris Philharmonic, Nadia Boulanger conducting, with the composer at the piano; Victor: 4 sides). One of the friskiest foals in the Parisian paddock. 26-year-old Composer Françaix is as yet practically unknown to U. S. listeners. His neat, chattering concerto is the most skilful bit of musical window-dressing that has been exported from Paris in a long time...
Prokofieff: Program of Piano Music (Played by the composer; Victor: 8 sides). A sheaf of miniatures by the trickiest of today's composers...
...Symphony No. 5 in E Minor (Czech Philharmonic, Georg Széll conducting; Victor: 10 sides). When Germany annexed the Sudeten area. Prague's Czech Philharmonic was disbanded, its members mobilized. But last week, anxious music-lovers learned that it had reassembled, would tour Great Britain. The least talked-about of the world's great orchestras, the demobilized Czechs had long been famous among record collectors for their matchless woodwinds and brasses. Of Czech Composer Dvořák's "New World" Symphony they give a matchless performance...
Mozart: Symphony in C Major, K. 200 (Berlin College of Instrumentalists, Fritz Stein conducting: Victor: 4 sides), and Symphony in B Flat Major, K. 319 (Chamber Orchestra, Edwin Fischer conducting; Victor: 6 sides). Two lesser but important Mozart symphonies, crisply played...
Mozart: Concerto in E Flat Major for Two Pianos and Orchestra, K. 365 (London Symphony, Sir Adrian Boult conducting, with Artur and Karl Schnabel; Victor: 6 sides). Only available recording of a great Mozart work, excellently performed...