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...Haydn: Arianna a Naxos (Jennie Tourel; Haydn Society). The Greek legend of Ariadne appealed strongly to Haydn. When he was 58 he wrote a short, melodious and seldom-heard solo cantata in which the abandoned princess bemoans her fate. Mezzo-Soprano Tourel sings it in warm Italian. The accompaniment is played by Ralph Kirkpatrick on a recreated 18th century piano...
...Haydn: String Quartets, Op. 50 (Schneider Quartet; Haydn Society, 6 sides LP). The sixth release (16 more records to come) of the complete cycle of 84 quartets, as performed by this ensemble last season (TIME, May 19). The music is played with a gusto that takes some of the formality out of the 18th century style...
...short, plumpish, dandified figure, the familiar imperial, the slow walk, the back dead straight, the chin well up, the arms straight by the sides. On his "off" nights he can be more "off" than anybody else; but at his best and when conducting the music he loves-Mozart, Haydn, Berlioz or Frederick Delius (his favorite English composer and lifelong friend)-he is a miracle of verve and delicacy...
...being gay, but somehow this Merry Widow is not always as lighthearted as it might be, perhaps because the makers of the picture tell the story as if they meant it. Valuable touches of insouciance are provided by Una Merkel as the widow's maid and Richard Haydn as a Marshovian baron...
Aside from the big names so dear to Victor's catalogue, there are good performances by less famous musicians: Guido Cantelli and Milan's La Scala Orchestra in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No. 5; the late Fritz Busch with the Danish State Radio Symphony Orchestra in Haydn's Symphony No. 88; Sir Adrian Boult and the BBC Symphony in Hoist's The Planets...