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Brahms: String Quartet No. 3 (Guilet String Quartet; Vox, 8 sides). Brahms, writing of this unusually sparkling quartet to Violinist Joachim, boasted: "You probably did not credit me with such finesse." Performance: good; recording: fair...
...reporters asked Rodzinski about his plans. Said he: "I have no answer-now. All I know is that I dreamed of making Chicago the musical capital of the world. Later there will be plenty said-but maybe I won't say it. Vox populi, you know." Then flexing his biceps, he cracked: "Maybe I can go into wrestling. But I guess not, I am too old with my ticker...
...judge from a recent album of re-issues called Louis Armstrong Paris, 1934, (Vox Spotlight No.300) the high C lovers were not disappointed. Louis must have been in wonderful physical condition. Though his tone had already thinned down, and his improvisations would sometimes degenerate into redundant lip exercises, his playing had a certain, since lost brilliance, and if like later virtuosos he prostituted his art as a concession to the franc, still it remained a rather original kind of prostitution...
Bartók: String Quartet No. 4 (Guilet String Quartet; Concert Hall Society, 6 sides). Like most of Bartók's experimental work, this is mostly hard going. Performance: good. Memorial Album (Vox, 4 sides). A collector's item: Bartók at the piano plays superbly some of his best Hungarian folk music. Recording: fair...
Louis Armstrong-Paris, 1934 (vox, 6 sides). The hot-jazz cultists insist that the Armstrong of the '20s is the true Armstrong, but he was going strong when he made these records with a mediocre, hastily assembled crew. What counts is Satchelmouth's relaxed singing and trumpeting of such classics as Tiger Rag, On the Sunny Side of the Street, St. Louis Blues. Recording: good...