Evening star., 1955-01-02
Turntoble T0Ik
Nodio Rosenberg Plays
| schoik Sonata

g. Deone
the later and more individual
Of the two works. It IS Q set
Of variations on q folk song
Of Grieg,s native Norway. and
the mood much Of the stime IS
suggestive Of quiet, placid
fjords. The sonata IS ohvi-
ously derivatige to some extent
from composers like Brahms
and Schumarn. but It has 3
robust. healthy character Of
its own.
GileIs Stors ii ccncertos
The newest batch of con%
cert0 recordings includes the
first two made outside Russia
BY the Soviet pianist Emil
Giiels. The fifst Is Beetho-
venss third, and the second
offers the Saint -Shens q
minor concerto plus Mozart's
B nat sonata. x. $40. Both
discs are from Angel.
Gilels turns ii polished per-
formances which rank with
the best. He approaches the
Beethoven straightforwardly.
without individualistic mons
sense. and the Saint Saens
q real virtuoso shOWpiece
with fine braVura fiair. AS for
the Mozart sonata. II Is given
q sound rendition. although
Gileps rather brisk manner
does not match Gieseking's
for allowing the savoring Of
the nnusic's less obvious riches.
Andre Cluytens and the Con-
servatoire Orchestra collahor-
ate effectively III the two con-
certos.
Arttlr RubtnSte1n and Fritz
Reiuer have done notably In
capturing the breadth and
sweep Of the Brahms D minor
concerto Ii 8 new Victor re-
lease from Chicago. Here Is
music on the grand scale,
erandly performed. And Serkin
and Or1nandy. with the Phila-
deIphia Orchestra. have made
3 more than usually dynamic
affair out of Beethoven's G
major concerto Labeled the
iirst, actually the second on
9 f1ne-sounding new disc from
Columbia.
Discs Honor Dioohiiey
"A lavish con1snemoration Of
the career Of the great bal
let director, Serge dag
hilev, which ended 25 years
ago. has been produced BY
Angel IN q copiousiy Illus
trated and annotated three
disc album Of ballet music.
Ballets, or parts Of them. BY
II composers whose music was
closely associated with Diag-
hiieY are performed by the
Philharmonic Orchestra under
q Diaghilev protege. Igor
Markevitch.
Most Of the pieces c'Daphnis
and Chloe, /" sPetrouchka, Les
Sylphides," etc. are well
known, hut three are less
familiar. Erik Satie's PA
rade, Z an uninhibited satire
on French music hall activity.
utilixes q couple Of novel
musical instruments: IA clicking
typewriter trepresenting an
American Crib and an airplane
engine tfor acrobatsl. rroko-
fieH's Les pas d'acier.s Z pre-
nniered in 1927, features q
machine ballet representing
factory life in Soviet Russia.
Liadoffs '.Kikimoras 3 Is q fairy
tale ballet about q witch with q
white cat.
These are interesting pieces,
and the three records as q
whole are well performed and
excellently recorded. The al
bum makes an enticing intro
duction to q lively musical
sphere. For collectors al
ready possessing or desiring
some OF the excepted ballets
complete. the acquisition Of
this set may seem somewhat
frustrating. though.
Ba1letomaines whose enthu-
siasm is excited by such fare
as .0aite Parisiennen will well
come q delightful Offenbach
record from Joseph Levine and
the Ballet Theatre Orchestra.
Suites from "Blueheard' and
Helen Of Troy are given hit
ing. pulsating treatment, and
Capitol has captured some
lustrous sound.