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...Ferruccio Tagliavini asked his audience at the HST to be kind to him, and for pity's sake, perhaps, they were. They cheered...
...Voice of Firestone (ABC, 10-10:30 p.m.). Guests: Ferruccio Tagliavini, Teresa Stratas, George Ricci, Conductor Milton Katims...
Busoni: Fantasia Contrappuntistica (Egon Petri; Westminster, mono). In this stylistic tour de force, Italian Pianist-Composer Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924) started with a chorale prelude and then, using subjects from an unfinished fugue by Bach, spun out four three-part fugues, one of them built on the name and the four notes B-A-C-H.* Throughout, Busoni gradually modernized his musical vocabulary, ending with a style marked by thick, dissonant clusters of notes. The effect, as presented by Dutch Pianist Petri, is a little like watching a nature film in which plants miraculously blossom and grow before the viewer...
Telephone Hour (Mon. 9 p.m., NBC). Tenor Ferruccio Tagliavini...
Puccini: La Bohème (Rosanna Carteri, Ferruccio Tagliavini, Giuseppe Taddei; Chorus and Orchestra of Radio Italiana, Turin, conducted by Gabriele Santini; Cetra-Soria). The singers give an appealing account of life in their drafty garret, but are vocally outclassed by others who have recorded the popular opera...