Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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Musicraft's "Masterpiece" records, competently performed and well recorded, are largely familiar: the Schubert Serenade, the Brahms Lullaby, Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata, etc. What makes them notable is that they are sold in drug and chainstores. Musicraft's Vice President Paul Puner began experimentally in Manhattan last September, by last week had his platters in 800 stores throughout the land-with sales topping 50,000 a week. Last week Musicraft made a deal with a promoter (anonymous) to sell at least 1,200,000 Masterpiece discs next year in credit furniture and jewelry stores. The records will...
...Sunday afternoon program (which, may I add, is a typical Rachmaninoff program in its popular glitter and lack of musicianly interest): Organ Prelude and Fugue, Bach; a Mendelssohn Rondo; a Chopin Nocturne and two Mazurkas; the Sonetto del Petraca and the Rhapsody No. 11 of Liszt, and Beethoven's Sonata Apparrionata, as well as several compositions of Rachmaninoff...
...label, but just try dancing to it, and the elaborate rhythmic patterns will have you giving out on the old one-two-three-kick... Lionel Hampton's latest offering features an unusual combination: rhythm section with two guitars, Spanish (Douglas Daniels) and electric (Teddy Bunn). Coupling is Pigfoot Sonata and Just for Laffs and both guitars take all the honors (VICTOR)... Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis, Mary Lou Williams, Joe Sullivan and Pete Johnson, are among the eight-beat pianists featured in DECCA's Boogie-Woogie Album. Best of the records is Ammons' Boogie-Woogie Stomp, with the fine trumpet...
...Europe last month with hardly a change of underwear. While he and Mme. Bartok raced in a bus from Geneva to Lisbon, their baggage got sidetracked and missed the boat. In the music roll under Bela Bartok's arm was the manuscript of his Kitchen Sonata...
Bach: Musical Offering (Yella Pessl, harpsichord, four strings, four wood winds; Victor: 10 sides). First recording, and a fine one, of the ingenious fugues, canons and sonata in which Bach tossed every which way a theme given him by King Frederick the Great (TIME...