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mudic onecorclSBy Roland MillerA welcome addition to the list oi avaJable chamber music recordings is Tschaikowsky’s Trio m A minor* opus 50, released by RCA-Victor with Jascha Heifetz, Gregor Piatigorsky and Artur Rubinstein as the performers This warm, elegant and romantic trio by a composer who professed to dislike the combination of piano with violin or celln is ample proof that he could do a first-class piece of work with these very elementsAnd the performance, by threeIT THIS PRICEeafures Iuniic Range...Two charcoal-like automatic operation 1top-rank artists who were dubbed “the Million-Dollar trio*’ after their Chicago presentation in 1949 s exquisite, thoughtful and brilliant by turns, with a matchless en-! semble quality that is rare when* soloists get together in chamber! music sessions jColumbia has issued a recording, of Gershwins Second Rhapsody for ! piano and orchestra with Oscar ! Levant playing the solo part and the Morton Gould orchestra providing the accompaniment On the reverse side of the long-play version are a set of versions on -T Got Rythm*’ and Gershwin’s xnree piano preludes, performed by the • same artistsThis rhapsodv less well known than the “Rhapsody in Blue/* is based on a sequence Gershwin wrote originally for the film “De-lisbus ” Along with the preludes it shows his typical vitality, individuality and inventiveness aswell as his mastery of the modem American jazz idiom as applied to serious musicThe selections are authoritativelyperformed by Levant, Gershwin's close friend and supreme interpre ter, and the recording goodVolume II of 4 Helen Traubel | Sings Wagner” is now on the rec-! ord stands, this one including ex-! cerpts from “Parsifal,” “The Flying Dutchman 4 Die Gotterdam-merung/ ‘Die Walkure” and 'Lohengrin ” Like the earlier volume, this RCA-Victor release is a fine item, presenting the magnificent! voice of America’s top Wagnerian I sopranos In some of Wagner's best-known anas, recorded with great brilliance and clarityRespighi’s •Teste Romane” is one of the less familiar works of the great Italian twentieth century composer, but is remarkably entertaining music It is a tone poem that shows again Respighi's unique gifts as an orchestral colorist and it will sell itself quickly to music ians and laymen alike RCA-Victor has a new recording, featuring Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony orchestra, and both performance and recording are excellentA final Victor item is the heralded album of “American Songs/* sung by Margaret Truman, daughter of the president The album contains some rather undistinguished songs, including The Bird,*' ‘Bunker Hill,” MMy Love Is Gone to Sea/' and others, and represents Mxss Truman’s first recording effort It is not remarkable # * • * •In Battle of the Bands,** Capitol i Records has brought together a dazzling display of the styles of eight of America’s top big dance bands—Stan Kenton, Woody Her-, mann* Benny Goodman, Charlie’ Barnet, Dizzy Gillespie, Bobby1
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Walla Walla Union Bulletin
Walla Walla, Washington, US
Sun, Apr 08, 1951
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