Word: victor
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bing Crosby (Wed. 10 p.m., ABC), with Boris Karloff and Victor Moore...
Bach: Mass in B Minor (RCA Victor Chorale and Orchestra, Robert Shaw conducting; Victor, 34 sides). For those who have waited patiently for Victor to replace its old, scratchy set of this momentous work, this one makes the wait worthwhile. Performance: excellent...
...course in "The Development of Romance Culture" could cover a topical range from national heroic poetry such as La Chanson de Roland and the Cid through Dante and Victor Huge to realism, naturalism, dadaism--even existentialism. One member of the Department's staff envisions "high selectivity" and a departure from the customary survey course pattern stressing detailed names of books and authors. "From the specialist's point of view it would all be superfluous," he ventures, but who cares...
...Victor commendably began to provide Rubinstein performances of Chopin, but, so far, the emphasis has been on multi-volume sets of lesser works, (mazurkas and nocturnes), while the great ballades and etudes, for example, have been left in the cold. Columbia, meanwhile, surrendered most of what little Chopin it decided to record to the mercy of Mr. Kilenyi. The massacre of the etudes is typical of the result. Not that there aren't any good interpreters of Chopin. What few records were made by the late greats Friedman and Rosenthal have not been reissued; Brailowsky has made few records...
...Schumann situation is even worse. Kilenyi and Cortot slaughter the etudes symphoniques and Myra Hess distorts the Carnaval, while the toccata, Kreisleriana, and sonatas exist only in ancient and unavailable Victor sets. The other piano works are mostly unrecorded. Liszi and Franck are brutally manhandled by everyone but Petri and Horowitz. Here Louis Kentner typifies the wasted talent: known in America for a few excellent Mozart recordings, Kentner himself considers Liszi his piece do resistance...