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...this tedious mishmash only Peter Bull, as Sergeant Buzfuz, shows an authentic Dickensian flair. Like a Daumier-lawyer print brought to life, he knows the precise satirical boiling point where caricature reveals character, where broadness of humor acquires the beef of wit. He is an estimable and melancholy measure of the show that might have been...
BEETHOVEN: THE COMPLETE VIOLIN AND PIANO SONATAS (4 LPs; Columbia). Released separately over the past few years, these performances by Violinist Zino Francescatti and Pianist Robert Casadesus are now complete. The earlier sonatas are especially fine, for the French artists are marvelously attuned to the lyricism, elfin wit, and inventive refinements of the young Beethoven. Other violinists may play the works more romantically (David Oistrakh on Philips) or more brilliantly (Jascha Heifetz on RCA Victor), but their pianists do not always live up to them, and the understanding partnership of the two virtuosos in the new series is rewarding...
FRANCIS POULENC: SEXTET FOR PIANO AND WINDS (Angel). Prokofiev-like flashes of wit and tipsy abandon brighten the sextet, while the Sonata for Flute and Piano sets afloat a dreamy cantilena, then juggles flashy melodic fragments into thin air, Michel Debost lightly plays the lyrical flute; Jacques Fevrier is the pianist with him and with the Paris Wind Quintet...
...through Pop's heart. Mistaken identity is rife; a girl who has spent the night with a man usually fails to recognize him next day if he changes capes. Every operatic boudoir seems to have a screen with someone hiding behind it, but the searchers never have the wit to look there. The hero or heroine is always good for at least 50 bars of song after having been fatally stabbed. One British opera buff, Henry Sutherland Edwards, wrote more in affection than in anger...
...England nine years ago and only now exported to these shores, My Dog Tulip divided dog lovers there into two neat halves: they either loved it or loathed it. Both responses are acceptable. There is no denying that Bachelor Ackerley has described with great literary skill, affection and wit the ties that often bind man to dog-in this case an Alsatian bitch. There is also no denying that Ackerley endlessly dwells on what some circles consider a dog's least lovable proclivities: elimination and procreation...