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Enough music (18 CDs, 349 tunes) to carry you through until the Fourth of July. Enough jazz artistry and pop dexterity to confirm Cole (if reminders are still needed) as one of the seminal talents of American music. And so much joyous musicmaking that it's virtually Unforgettable...
...SCHOENBERG: GUERRELIEDER. Riccardo Chailly conducting the Berlin Radio Symphony (London/Decca, 2 CDs). The high-water mark of late -- really late -- romanticism, Gurrelieder will come as a revelation to those who equate Schoenberg with the chilly 12-tone system. The fiery song cycle, really a music drama about doomed love and transcendence, gets a voluptuous Wagnerian reading from Chailly...
...EVGENY KISSIN: CARNEGIE HALL DEBUT CONCERT (RCA, 2 CDs). For once, a Russian pianist who deserved all his pre-debut hype. In September 1990, before the toughest audience in the world, Kissin, then 18, wowed 'em with Schumann, Prokofiev, Liszt and Chopin...
Enough music (18 CDs, 349 tunes) to carry you through until the Fourth of July. Enough jazz artistry and pop dexterity to confirm Cole (if reminders are still needed) as one of the seminal talents of American music. And so much joyous musicmaking that it's virtually Unforgettable...
...marvelously backed by the likes of Louis Armstrong and Fletcher Henderson. BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE LEGACY (1933-1958) (Columbia) is a shrewdly chosen 70-cut package from her fecund Columbia years, bound to urge anyone with ears on to the complete -- and completely indispensable -- Columbia recordings (available on nine separate CDs). BILLIE HOLIDAY: THE COMPLETE DECCA RECORDINGS (GRP) includes 50 performances from 1944 to 1950 that push Lady Day toward pop but still keep her sensuality and edge of danger...