BRAHMS: Neue Liebeslieder Walz- Britten Records in the American Cata- Orchestra, No
midway between the granitic massive- val Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin, cond. prefaced the work with the Corelli Con- ness of Backhaus and the wry linearity of (in the Britten and Corelli), Michael certo grosso from which the theme of Kempff, and thoroughly comparable to Tippett, cond. (in the Tippett). Tippett's work is taken. Intellectual both. ANGEL 36303. LP. $4.79. stimulation and sensuous delight are The sound is fine, if a trifle low in ANGEL S 36303. SD. $5.79. equally abundant on this lovely record. level in the stereo pressing of the Bee- B.J. thoven disc. H.G. I was astonished to discover that there was no version of the Frank Bridge Variations among the fairly numerous CHOPIN: Concerto for Piano and BRAHMS: Neue Liebeslieder Walz- Britten records in the American cata- Orchestra, No. 1, in E minor, Op. er, Op. 65 logues. This witty, polished work, com- 11; Mazurkas: No. 54, in D, Op. (Hindemith: Sonata for Piano, 4 posed in the space of a few weeks when posth.: No. 46, in C, Op. 67, No. 3; Hands Britten was twenty- three, was the first No. 49, in A minor, Op. 68, No. his pieces to bring him into in- 1-Stravinsky: Pétrouchka: Suite of the 2; No. 5, in B flat, Op. 7, No. 1 ternational limelight, when it was per- Yaltah Menuhin and Joel Ryce, piano. formed at the 1937 Salzburg Festival. Tamás Vásáry. piano: Berlin Philhar- EVEREST 6130. LP. $4.98. It won him an immediate reputation for monic Orchestra. Jerzy Semkov, cond. EVEREST 3130.
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