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Andant'e con Variazioni in F minor...... Haydn RCA VICTOR RECORDING G. FAURE: Piano Quartet No. I, in C minor, Op. 15. Artur Rubinstein. Impromptu in A Hat, Op. 90...... Schubert Pianist; Members of the Paganini Quartet. 4—7" 45 r.p.m. records. WDM-1493 ------$5.14 Program Continued on Second Page Following LIBERTY MUSIC SHOPS 5J! SiSIlSS 2$ CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM 7

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THE AGENT OF FAMOUS ARTISTS Sonata in F minor, Op. 5. Brahms Allegro maestoso Andante In some of the earlier pianoforte works of Brahms, the composer was inspired by poetry. This appears to be so in this Andante. Inscribed above the score are the following lines by Sternau: "Day has gone and the moon has come; She sees two hearts in love made one Restaurant That blissfully cling together.” Next to Carnegie Hall Scherzo 150 West 57th Street Retrospect Allegro

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made the music of Bach her special province. These master­ pieces of the science of counterpoint present Madame Landowska at her best. Although the biographers of Bach Record Review. .. are responsible for the assertion that the IFell-Tempered Clavier was composed for the clavichord, it is obvious that Latest Victor Releases the harpsichord and Wanda Landowska’s talents suit it The RCA Victor Red Seal feature release for February is much better. The timid, sweet tone of the clavichord is not one of the most interesting and varied in many months. equal to the inherent vigor of the work, but the harpsichord, It is as diverse in mood as it is in period and a JJde with its variety of registers, its sharp outlines and shifting range of music from the pens of composers of totally differ­ sonorities, is able to perfectly express the complete richness ent and contrasting styles The release of the music. the Preludes and Fugues Nos. 1-8 from Book II of Bach^ Well-Tempered Clavier, played by Wanda Landowska who GUSTAVE MAHLER has made this particular music her own special P^Perty. Marian Anderson, Contralto, San Francisco From a period one hundred and fifty years later, there: k Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux, Conductor the sombre and moving Kindertotenheder (Songs on the Death of Children) of Gustave Mahler, sung by' Ma"a” The Kindertotenlieder, a melancholy and deeply moving Anderson with the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra under cycle of five songs on the death of children, was written by the direction of Pierre Monteux. The same orchestra and Gustave Mahler in 1902 and first performed in Vienna in conductor are featured in an evocative performance of 1905 under the composer’s direction. The five songs are Debussy’s Three Images for Orchestra. The Paganini Quar­ based on poems of Friedrich Rückert, whose two children tet plays eight movements of chamber music in the album died of scarlet fever. The song cycle was written shortly The Heart of the String Quartet, offering the music by after the birth of Mahler’s first child, but even such a joy­ Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Mendelssohn, Schu­ ous event was clouded with foreboding, for Mahler was a mann, Tchaikovsky, and Dvorak; and finally, Robert Mer­ man with a great capacity for unhappiness. His foreboding rill is heard in the album, Stephen Foster m Song and in this instance may have been prophetic, however, for a few Story, presenting the best-loved melodies of this ever-popular years later, his two children like those of Rückert, died of and thoroughly “American” composer. scarlet fever. The poems are entitled: Nun Will Die Sonn' So Hell Aufgeh’n! (Once More the Sun Would Gild the J. S. BACH Morn!); Nun Seh’ Ich Wohl, Warum So Dunkel Flammen Wanda Landowska, Harpsichordist (Ah, Now I Know Why Oft I Caught You Gazing); Wenn Dein Mutterlein (When Thy Mother Dear); Oft Denk’ Ich, Continuing her project of recording the complete Well- Sie Sind Nur Ausgegangen (I Think Oft, They’ve Only- Tempered Clavier of Bach, Wanda Landowska is now heard in the Preludes and Fugues Nos. 1-8 of Book II, completed Gone A Journey) and In Diesem Wetter! (In Such A Tempest!) The songs are sung with great feeling and by Bach in 1744. Book I has already been released by RCA emotion by Miss Anderson and the orchestral background Victor. This recording was made in Madame Landowska s by Pierre Monteux and the San Francisco Symphony home in Lakeville, Connecticut. She is undoubtedly the Orchestra develops all the profundity of the great score. greatest living exponent of the harpsichord, and she has uas CARNEGIE HALL PROGRAM 13

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TOWN HALL TOWN HALL Friday and Sunday Evenings, at 8:30 Wednesday Evening, MARCH 12, at 8:30 MARCH 21 and MARCH 30 Ruth Diehl TWO SCHUMANN RECITALS Soprano Moiseiwitsch EDWARD HART at the Piano Assisting Artist, Eugenie Dengel, Violinist Programs include Fantaisie in C Major, Etudes, Symphoniques, Kreisleriana, Carnaval, etc. Steinway Piano Baldwin Piano RCA Victor Records

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Wednesday Evening, MARCH 5, at 8:30 Tuesday Evening, MARCH 25, at 8:30 Henry Traeger Else Fink Dramatic Soprano Pianist OTTO SEYFERT at the Baldwin Steinway Piano

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