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VERDI: REQUIEM (RCA Victor). The virtues of this new recording are the soloists. Carlo Bergonzi is good enough to make the listener forget Jussi Bjoerling's masterly reading of the Ingemisco. Birgit Nilsson is all fire; Lili Chookasian and Ezio Flagello both have big, warm voices. The difficulties stem...
THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE (Caedmon) is a powerful distillation in sound of the most sustained assault on the senses that Broadway theatergoers have experienced in years. While the mind'...
It is, in effect, a Saturday Review kind of radio station that the listener hears at 93.5 on the FM dial. But unwavering devotion to this image of quiet good taste and serious musical interest raises some difficult problems.
Regardless of what people have heard about this 28-year-old bird boy, no first-time listener is ever fully prepared for the major poet who lives in a minor-sized body (5 ft. 6 in., 132 Ibs.). When he played Prokofiev's wildly percussive and majestically colorful Second...
Munch also found the concert an irresistible opportunity for resuscitating Symphony Hall's gilded plumbingvia the Symphony No.3 of Saint-Saens, the so-called Organ Symphony. Politely termed "eclectic" in content, the symphony's overall level of subtlety and sophistication is best revealed by the descending C-major scale, played...