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Halevy: La Juive, highlights (Sopranos Martina Arroyo and Anna Moffo, Tenor Richard Tucker, Bass Bonaldo Giaiotti, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antonio de Almeida conducting; RCA, $5.98). First performed in 1835, La Juive (The Jewess) is grand in style, massive in its demands for choral, orchestral and solo forces and spectacular in stage effects; in accordance with the Parisian fondness for such stuff, it was one of the favorites of 19th century French opera. Set in 1 5th century Switzerland, the story concerns the persecution of Eleazar, a Jewish goldsmith, and his foster daughter Rachel. Before his execution, Eleazar...
Last year Lichtenstein hired Composer-Conductor Lukas Foss as director of the Academy's orchestra, the Brooklyn Philharmonia. Jazz, blues and gospel are heard throughout the year in the Black People's Music program, highlighted each fall by a festival of performing groups from Africa and Asia...
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Minor (Charles Rosen soloist, John Pritchard conducting the New Philharmonia Orchestra, Odyssey; $2.98). Each time a new Rosen record appears, one wonders why more is not heard from him. His attack is confident, his approach intelligent, and he achieves a tonal purity that is best described as supremely musical...
...Koussevitsky, now only two-or more-will do. Pierre Boulez now jets between the New York Philharmonic and London's BBC Symphony, Georg Solti between the Chicago Symphony and Orchestre de Paris, Zubin Mehta between the Los Angeles and Israel Philharmonics, Lorin Maazel between London's New Philharmonia and the Berlin Radio Orchestra; Maazel will also conduct the Cleveland Orchestra beginning next fall...
...Many a record company has set out, intending to offer Haydn's complete this or that, only to founder along the way. With 88 more symphonies to go, London deserves approval and support. In these largely unknown middle-period symphonies played by Antal Dorati and the Philharmonia Hungarica, Haydn's mind is always fascinating to follow, even though he is not yet the sovereign master of symphonic repartee revealed in later works like the Oxford and London...