Evening star., 1952-07-27
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This Type Music Unheord
In Most Concert Halls
By jones 6. Deone

Esoteric. Nicanor Zabaleta is the
performer. and the music is half
18th century Spanish, half mod
'ern. Spanish and French. Mr..
zabaleta, himself a Spaniard,
plays with verve, and the record
ing is excellent. If Harpo Marx
is the only harp virtuoso you've
encountered. this may surprise
you.
Mozart wrote a concerto for
harp and flute. K. 299, which is
a minor work as Mozart works
go. It was composed for a young
duchess whose skill wasn't the
highest. But that's no reason for
disinissing it. The Stuttgart Tom
Studio Orchestra and soloists
render it. competently on q Period
disc, along with the brief horn
concerto, K. 412. Recording is
close and clear.
Andolusion Themes
Still in the plucked-string de-
partment, we have an unusual
group Of Spanish numbers by
Lopez Tejera. Called Joys and
Sorrows Of Andalusia," they have
"a picturesque folk quality. Luis
Maravilla plays guitar, with in
termittent vocalization by a
singer named Pepe Valencia, both
artists being from the Ballets
Pillar Lopez. Music like this nom
Spaniards seldom have heard.
Good recording by Westminster.
The plain, ordinary violin gets
neglected sometimes. too-witness
more early Mozart. Period turns
to Stuttgart again for his two
earliest concertos-the B Nat, K.
I207. and D major. K. 211. They
are products Of youth. but the
neglect certainly isn't justified.
Aida Stuck is the soloist, Gustav
Lund the conductor. The playing
is satisfactory. if shade on the
stold side. Stuttgart also gives
us a disc containing the early
Symphony No. "a, K. 1872. a
march, K. 248, and the Diverti-
|mento No. 10 in F, K. 247. The
|Divertimento is charming; it's too
bad the oversize hasn't more to
balance it.
Next, more neglected violin con-
certos-by Busoni and Spohr.
Busoni was a great pianist of a
generation ago who had a pen
chant for, transcribing Bach. This
has preserved his name on con-
cert programs. In this case he
proves a respectable composer in
his own right. The concerto
might we'll replace one of the
half dozen we hear each season,
Siegfried Vorres and the Radio
Berlin Orchestra do the playing
A Wolf-Ferrari serenade on the
oversize unfortunately says moth
ing, at length. Urania is the
maker.
Sometimes one hears Spohr's
eighth concerto; almost never his
seventh. Both are on another
Urania disc, and the seventh
lproves the more appealing. It's
also better served by Rudolf
lSchulz and the Berlin Orches-
itra under Robert Heger. The
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
which supports Kurt Stiehler ir
1.-THE other. sounds tubby. Spohl
WAS q rival Of Paganini. The
Iviolinistics sound accordingly.
lSpohT's Chamber Music
More Spohr is on q Stradivar
Idiscfis @Grande Nonette." Al
THAT means is chamber work fol
mime muSicianS-violin, viola, cello
lbass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoor
land horn. The ''nonette" i
lsprightly. rather Brahmsian, ant
quite good listening. On the re
verse, Alice Howland, soprano
with David Weber, clarinet, an.
Leopold Mittman, piano, sing
some pleasant songs. Recording
lis good.
| Stradivari submits another vic
Ilin concerto, BY Sibelius. Arnol,
lEidus and the Orchestra Societ
lof Vienna {Whatever that is) MIA