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Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique (Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Sir Georg Solti conducting; London, $6.98; Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis conducting; Philips, $7.98). One of the fantastic things about this symphony is the number of superior recorded performances it has had over the years. Argenta, Beecham, Munch, Van Beinum and Ozawa are among the many who have mastered this wildly prophetic score, completed in 1830, only three years after Beethoven's death. Here are two new versions, both by virtuoso conductors and virtuoso orchestras, that go to the top of the list. To choose between them is difficult. Davis' elegant approach...
...Immune. It is scandalous to Mrs. Shaw (Katherine Squire) that Andrew (Stanley Anderson), the firebrand, should have ditched his law career to be come an abstract painter. Why has Steven (Philip Charles MacKenzie), the youngest, with his odd, pervasive silence, quit work on his incisive book about modern society? Colin (Paul Collins), the brother in industrial relations, pleas es his mother mightily by announcing.a forthcoming marriage. Consider his rea son: "It's just less embarrassing to be married than...
BERLIOZ: LA DAMNATION DE FAUST (Philips, 3 LPs). Conductor Colin Davis' exemplary latest chapter in the resurrection of Hector Berlioz...
Berlioz: La Damnation de Faust, with Nicolai Gedda, Jules Bastin, Josephine Veasey (London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis conducting; Philips; 3 LPs; $20.94). This work exists on one of the composer's loftier plateaus of the mind rather than on a workable theatrical level. Thus Damnation is in many ways especially well suited to armchair listening. Continuing his masterly unprecedented series devoted to Berlioz's major works, Davis again conducts with suave professionalism and lightning-like flashes of insight and revelation...
LOST DISCOVERIES by Colin Ronan. 125 pages. McGraw-Hill. $10.95. Lively, lucid and well illustrated, this book describes scientific discoveries made by ancient civilizations that were later temporarily "lost"-from neglect, or simply because they were too far ahead of their time. The list is impressive and long...