Word: seraphim
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...three new labels, Seraphim ("Angels of the highest order") has the brightest roster of musicians, including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau and Wilhelm Furtwängler. Philips' World Series has less prominent but still lustrous names (Clara Haskil, Marcel Dupré) and an equally broad selection of works. Epic's Crossroads, the only one of the trio with all recent, all truly stereophonic recordings, has culled its list from that of the Czechoslovak firm Supraphon and thus gives voice to the Czech Philharmonic, the Smetana Quartet, and the Prague Symphony Orchestra. Some jewels in new settings...
PUCCINI: LA BOHÈME (2 LPs; Seraphim). The recording dates from 1956, a wonderful year to catch Soprano Victoria de los Angeles as the purest of Mimis, Tenor Jussi Bjoerling as the most poetic of Rodolfos, and Conductor Sir Thomas Beecham as an expressive Puccinist. The album was produced by the European firm EMI and originally sold by RCA Victor in the U.S. When EMI severed ties with Victor, the album was dropped from Victor's catalogue, only to be resurrected now with its new trademark of little seraphim wings. Mono only...
MOZART: EXSULTATE, JUBILATE (Seraphim). Soprano Elisabeth Schwarzkopf in a performance that has become a collector's item in the years since it was first released in 1954. Her hallelujahs are triumphant in the Mozart motet and then shower forth brilliantly again in the Bach cantata, Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen...
DELIUS: SUMMER EVENING and PRELUDE TO IRMELIN (Seraphim). Sir Thomas Beecham again, magically confecting these drifting, dreaming selections by the blind composer whose works he espoused. Sir Thomas also conducts the tone poem Tapiola by Sibelius, a masterly evocation of the forest god Tapio and his mysterious Finnish woodlands...
...Judge Cannon refused to give in -"I will remain in the Eagles as long as I live"-and Father Groppi's pickets looked to new targets among the Eagles on the bench. They marched outside the home of County Judge Christ Seraphim and threatened to lay siege to the home of Judge Robert Hansen. At week's end, however, a partial truce was arranged by state officials, and Father Groppi agreed to stay out of Milwaukee's police short suburbs after dark during the Labor Day weekend...