Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call him "Sir." A. & M.'s crack team (which has lost only two games) is paced by 7-ft., high-scoring (58 points in one game) Bob Kurland, whose "dunk shot" is thrown down through the hoop, not up to it. Another contender: Ohio State, the Big Ten victor (won 14, lost...
...past six weeks the record market has been mildly flooded with repressed albums unobtainable during the war. Space forbids any adequate treatment of these, allowing criticism only of two of the most significant new Victor releases issued during the past two weeks...
...substituting harpsichord for piano, Victor has produced a version (DM-1035) of J. S. Bach's Third Sonata for violin and clavier in E flat more faithful to the Seventeenth Century style than the recording cut several years ago by Yehudi Menuhin and his sister Hepzibah. Although the harpsichord part may be slightly less important than the violin, the precision and vigor commanded by Wanda Landowska provide a better accompaniment for Menuhin than the carefully uninspired piano performance by his sister...
Beethoven: Symphony No. 2 in D Major (Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner conducting; Columbia, 8 sides; Symphony No. 6 (Pastoral) in F (New York City Symphony, Leopold Stokowski conducting; Victor, 10 sides). Pittsburgh's Reiner is generally content to play Beethoven the way Beethoven wrote it; Stokowski, who still feels a call to improve on the composer, lushes up the Pastoral. Orchestral performance of both: good...
Debussy: Preludes, Book I (1910) (E. Robert Schmitz, pianist; Victor, 14 sides). The shimmering Voiles (Sails) and eerie La Cathedrale Engloutie (The Engulfed Cathedral) are not as sensitively played as the Nazis' star Pianist Walter Gieseking played them in 1939 for Columbia, but the recording is better. Performance: good...