Word: vox
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bartok: Concerto No. 2 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox-Polydor, 2 sides, LP). First recording of this great work, which the late Bela Bartok composed in the same period as the brilliant and bold Quartet No. 4. Stubbornly unrelenting in its harmonies and fierce rhythms, it is sterner stuff than the later Concerto No. 3. Hungarian-American Pianist Foldes gives it a powerful performance. Recording: excellent...
Concerto In B Flat, K. 450 (Andor Foldes, pianist, with the Lamoureux Orchestra, Eugene Bigot conducting; Vox, 2 sides, LP). Also one of the greats, performed with equal precision and more life. Recording: good...
...Dances of Marosszék (Andor Foldes, pianist; Vox, 3 sides). Kodály (pronounced Kó-die-ee), who with the late Béla Bartók spent years researching and recording Hungarian folk music, based these picturesque fantasies on Transylvanian dances; Pianist Foldes plays them with the insight and technique of a native Hungarian, which he is. Recording: good...
...Vox Populi. In St. Louis, Henry C. Mertz helpfully drove 14 people to the polls as part of his campaign for ward committeeman, later found that in their precinct he had got a total of one vote...
Berg: Lyric Suite (Galimir String Quartet; Vox-Polydor, 8 sides). In this suite, one of his last works, the late Alban Berg (TIME, May 31) put his teacher Arnold Schonberg's theories to test, came up with perhaps the best work yet composed in twelve-tone technique. That still doesn't make it very listenable to ordinary unpracticedears. Performance: excellent. Recording : excellent...