Page 12B EUGENE REGISTER-GUARD, Sunday, Oct. 21, 1962
New Brahms Recordings
Belong in Basic Collections
By MARY CAMPBELL
' Of the Auoclited fren
: Angel has pasted stamps
reading "This recording rec
ommended for your basic li
brary of classical music" to
its new releases of Brahms
First Symphony and the
Brahms Violin Concerto.
These two works certainly
do belong in a basic classical
collection. And the new re
cordings, the former by the
Philharmonia Orchestra con
ducted by Carlo Maria Giulini,
and the latter by David Ois-f
trakh with the French Na
tional Radio Orchestra, Otto
Klempcrcr, conductor, both
aro excellent.
Brahms wrote at the same
time as two important in
novators. The flamboyant
Wagner was rocking the world
of opera with his vast "mu
sic dramas" and the charm
ing Liszt was composing sym
phonic poems accompanied by
program notes explaining
story idea and mood.
Brahms Cautious
But Brahms was cautious.
He worked only in forms
which had been successful in
the past. He tackled no form
until he was sure he could
handle it. And he destroyed
anything he wrote which he
considered unworthy.
He wrote canons and fu
gues, serenades and sonatas,
concertos and variations, and
finally, in 1876, at 43, worked
up to his Symphony No. 1 '
in the grand manner of Beethoven.
A dramatic introduction
leads into a powerful first
movement whose themes sug
gest epic conflict and stress.
The second movement is ro
mantic and melodic, the third
gentle. The fourth again
shows conflict, plus tragedy,
but has a triumphant conclu
sion. The Violin Concerto ap
peared in 1879. Symphonic in
length and difficult to per
form, its mood for the listen
er is one of serenity.
Notes on the album cover
. help the listener find the
three main themes of the first
movement and guide him
through their development.
The violin, as played by
David Oistrakh, dominates the
orchestr a e v e n though
Brahms, writing just after his
First and Second Symphonies,
did not stint the richness of
the orchestral part.
Another Angel introduction
record, without the "basic li
brary" notation, is Mahler's
Fourth Symphony. Otto Klem
pcrcr conducts the Philhar
monia Orchestra and Elisa
beth Schwarzkopf is soloist.
In the Fourth, Mahler is
concerned with the idea that
fear of death is terrifying
but death itself is serene. He
uses many cheerful peasant
tunes and a serene, soaring
song, beautifully performed
by Miss Schwarzkopf.
Record collectors intercst
' ed in firsts will find two new
piano almums of interest.
One, by Byron Janis, on
Mercury, is "the first record
ing ever made in Russia by
- American technical and music
staff and equipment." It was
recorded in Moscow in June
of this year with four and a
half tons of shipped equip
ment. The other, by Robert Prilch
ard, on Spoken Arts, is "the
first recording anywhere of a
Negro concert pianist" and
"Spoken Arts' debut in the
field of music."
' Exciting, Sentimental
Byron Janis, appearing on
his second tour of Russia with
the Moscow Philharmonic Or
chestra conducted by Kyril
Kondrashin, performs Proko
fiev's brilliant Third Piano
Concerto and Rachmaninoff's
First Piano Concerto.
The two are widely differ
ent. The Prokofiev is modern,
exciting, with the piano used
like a percussion instrument
while Rachmaninoff is senti
mental. Janis plays them in
appropriately different styles.
Pritchard performs nine
shorter selections evidently
selected to exhibit versatility.
He begins with Bach and
Mendelssohn and ends with
Chopin. In between are found
two compositions by the pia
nist and "Le Banjo," by Gotts
chalk, which has banjo-like
passages and includes a smat
tering of "Camptown Races."
Pritchard 's interesting
compositions contain the feel
ing of much motion (despite
static bass) and modernity
yet absolutely no jazz or dissonance.
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As you know we're
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mal after the big storm
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come better known as
the Day of the Big
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one lesson never be
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radio. It was an eerie
feeling out there alone
in the universe with no
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it was still there.
We have a complete
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and we're not predict
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that you'll find one
comforting In even a
minor emergency. And,
of course, they're great
fun to take with you
on outings.
Another household
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problem is the candle.
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and the staff was inter
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male customer made.
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