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PUCCINI: LA BOHÉME (London, 2 LPs). Conductor Herbert von Karajan and friends make the bohemian life worth living-and listening to-all over again...
...want to save their pennies for this set. Kubelik's surging way with the music catches its color and drama and seems to belie the uneven moments in some of the early symphonies. The Berlin Philharmonic, reduced so often to a static silkiness by its regular leader, Herbert von Karajan, here seems positively to revel in Kubelik's ruddy approach...
...Von Stade and Whitlock, o'er students they range...
...Virgin Spring. 1960. Academy Award-winning Bergman film centers of violent rape-murder in medieval Sweet Fine acting by Max von Sydow...
What is really exceptional here, though, is the acting. Adam is cold, Aryan and deliberate, a Max von Sydow who is best when working with his hands, saying quietly, "Life is still long enough to learn how to dig." He bore suffering and experience well, which sets the mood of the second act. But the suffering of Eve is even more important...