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Mozart: Great Mass In C Minor, K. 427 (Rosl Schweiger and Hertha Toepper, sopranos; Hugo Meyer-Welfing, tenor; George London, bass; Anton Heiller, organist; the Akademie Chorus of Vienna, the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Meinhard von Zallinger conducting; the Haydn Society, 4 sides LP). This is not the greatest of Mozart's 60 "operas for the angels," but it is one that deserves to be heard oftener. Performance and recording: good...
Wagner: The Flying Dutchman (Hans Hotter, baritone; Viorica Ursuleac, soprano; George Hann, bass; Karl Ostertag, tenor; Franz Klarwein, tenor; Luise Wilier, contralto; Chorus and Orchestra of the Bavarian State Opera, Clemens Krauss conducting; Mercury, 8 sides LP). First complete recording of Wagner's early opera. Performance and recording: good...
Manhattan recording studios last week were rocking to the loose-jointed two-beat tempo of slap bass and honkytonk piano, the syncopated blast of gutbucket trumpet, tailgate trombone and high-flying clarinet. The record industry, with a gleaming eye on a trend, was climbing back aboard the Dixieland bandwagon...
Verdi: Falstaff (Giuseppe Taddei, baritone; Saturno Meletti, baritone; Emilio Renzi, tenor; Gino Del Signore, tenor; Giuseppe Nessi, tenor; Cristiano Dalla Mangas, bass; Rosanna Carteri, soprano; Lina Pagliughi, soprano; Anna Maria Canali, mezzo-soprano; Amalia Pini, mezzo-soprano; orchestra and chorus of Radio Italiana, Mario Rossi conducting; Cetra-Soria, 6 sides LP). This is a slightly different Falstaff from the one NBC listeners have just heard from Arturo Toscanini (TIME, April 10). Orchestrally, it lacks the carefulness and cleanness of Toscanini's performance, and Conductor Rossi allows his singers, all excellent, more swagger and sway. But stylistically...
...combining two accordions, a banjo, bass fiddle and piano with two solovoxes, he made music that sounded good to a lot of people who would not have listened twice to old-style polka bands with their hard-blowing brass and woodwinds and their um-pa-pa .beat. Frankie also managed to please polka experts. In 1948, when his polka version of the hillbilly ballad Just Because became a national bestseller (more than 1,000,000 records), Frankie's popularity began spreading outside his old beat...