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Haydn: The Creation (Trude Eipperle, soprano; Georg Hann, bass; Julius Patzak, tenor; Isolde Ahlgrimm, cembalo; Vienna State Opera Chorus, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Clemens Krauss conducting; Haydn Society, 6 sides LP). This is one of Haydn's finest works, but paradoxically, one that sounds least like Haydn. Already in his late 50s, Haydn went to London, heard the choral singing in the huge Handel Festival of 1791, and returned to Vienna feeling liberated from the classical form he himself had done so much to develop. When he got around to composing this work, seven years later, he followed his predecessor...
Offenbach: The Tales of Hoffmann (Raoul Jobin, tenor; Renee Doria, soprano; Vina Bovy, soprano; Geori Boue, soprano; Fanely Revoil, mezzo-soprano; Louis Musy, baritone; Andre Fernet, bass, Charles Soix, bass; Roger Bourdin, baritone; Chorus and Orchestra of the Paris Opera-Comique, Andre Cluytens conducting; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Offenbach's witty and brilliant opera is done to a turn, even to the sound of wine gurgling from a bottle. Recording: excellent...
...Government, which had waited so long before acting-until Harry Truman could bring himself to invoke the Taft-Hartley Act-moved laboriously along the legal front. This week, in the ultimate stage of the crisis, the United Mine Workers' bow-tied, bass-voiced Attorney Welly Hopkins appeared before Federal Judge Richmond Keech. In obedience to Judge Keech's Taft-Hartley order, the union had twice instructed its 370,000 idle miners to go back to work. They had disregarded the instructions. But the Government maintained that the union was still responsible for their actions. The judge had ordered...
...Black. In those days John was Ivan Jadan, and Russian critics compared him enthusiastically to Leonid Sobinov, who 40 years ago sang tenor to Chaliapin's bass. His more ardent admirers called him "the Russian Caruso." Ivan lived in Moscow's most modern apartment house with his wife Olga and his son Alexander, enjoyed the special privilege of shopping in the luxury stores reserved for the new Soviet aristocracy. There was only one wrong note: Jadan was not a party member...
Bloch: Sacred Service (Marko Rothmuller, bass-baritone; Dorothy Bond, soprano; Doris Cowan, contralto; the London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Ernest Bloch conducting; London FFRR, 2 sides LP). Bloch's beautiful and powerful setting of the Hebrew texts used in Reform temples in the U.S. Performance and recording: excellent...