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MOZART: PIANO CONCERTOS VOL. 1 (3 LPs; Epic). The Hungarian-born Mozart specialist Lili Kraus plans to record all the piano concertos, Mozart's crowning achievements in instrumental music. She has begun with Nos. 12, 18, 20, 23, 24 and 26, all written after Mozart, renowned as Austria's greatest pianist, moved to Vienna. His playing was famed for its singing touch and exquisite taste. Eschewing broad contrasts and romantic rubato, Miss Kraus emulates the 18th century master...
Cantos, Thirty Cantos. Marcel Proust, Du Cote de Chez Swann. Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au Corps. Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Vol de Nuit. Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausee. Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems. Stephen Spender, Ruins and Visions. Wallace Stevens, Harmonium. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians. J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western
...less dedicated Guthrie fans, RCA Victor's reissue of the Dust Bowl Ballads is a good sampling, and Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs, Vol. 2 (Folkways) includes some lighter moments like Keep My Skillet Good and Greasy and The Talking Hard-Luck Blues...
DOMENICO SCARLATTI: SONATAS FOR HARPSICHORD, VOL. VIII (Westminster). Musicians call Scarlatti's music "naked" because the performer is so exposed. Fernando Valenti need fear no such exposure, and has recorded more than 400 of Scarlatti's short sonatas. Scarlatti started to write them when he was 53; all but one of these twelve were written in his late 60s, when his earlier keyboard virtuosity made way for more provocative harmonies and modulations. Valenti's interpretation is vigorous, with a flamenco flair now and then, well-suited to Scarlatti's Spanish side...
...them-and a rather enjoyable third at that-men and women are surprisingly stodgy about their beds. Their resistance to change in sleeping styles has long been the despair of the bed business; despite much smart and sexy advertising, there has been little growth in unit sales or dollar vol ume for the past decade. But there was rejoicing last week at the National Association of Bedding Manufacturers' convention in Chicago. A bed trend is under way-toward sleeping...