RECORDINGS; Mercury 'Living Presence' Comes to Life Again Review

No less impressive are the same conductor's Schoenberg/Berg/Webern disk with the London Symphony Orchestra, a sort of basic repertory of the Second Viennese School (has anyone else produced a scream quite as searing as Helga Pilarczyk's at the end of the ''Lulu'' Suite?...

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Published inThe New York times
Main Authors Freed, Richard, Richard Freed is a contributing editor of Stereo Review
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, N.Y New York Times Company 30.09.1990
EditionLate Edition (East Coast)
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COMPACT DISKS
Dorati, Antal
Fennell, Frederick
FREED, RICHARD
Hanson, Howard
MUSIC
NEW MODELS, DESIGN AND PRODUCTS
Paray, Paul
REVIEWS
Starker, Janos
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Summary:No less impressive are the same conductor's Schoenberg/Berg/Webern disk with the London Symphony Orchestra, a sort of basic repertory of the Second Viennese School (has anyone else produced a scream quite as searing as Helga Pilarczyk's at the end of the ''Lulu'' Suite?), and a stunning Respighi package (''Pines,'' ''Fountains,'' ''The Birds'' and ''Brazilian Impressions'') involving both that orchestra and the Minneapolis Symphony. [Liszt]: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2; Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6; ''Valse oubliee'' ''Sonetto del Petrarco'' No. 104; Schumann: ''Novellette'' in F major, Op. 21; Romance in F sharp. Falla: ''The Three-Cornered Hat'' (Miller's Dance). Guion: ''The Harmonica Player.'' [Byron Janis], piano; Kyril Kondrashin conducting the Moscow Philharmonic in Concerto No. 1; Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra in No. 2. 432 002-2. Kodaly: ''[Hary Janos]'' Suite; Bartok: ''Hungarian Sketches''; ''Romanian Dances.'' Mr. [Antal Dorati] conducting the Minneapolis Symphony. Kodaly: ''Dances of Galanta''; ''Marosszek Dances.'' Mr. Dorati conducting the Philharmonia Hungarica. 432 005-2.
ISSN:0362-4331