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

• Published in: The New York times
• Main Authors: Freed, Richard, Richard Freed is a contributing editor of Stereo Review
• Format: Newspaper Article
• Language: English
• Published: New York, N.Y New York Times Company 30.09.1990
• Edition: Late Edition (East Coast)
• Subjects: COMPACT DISKS; Dorati, Antal; Fennell, Frederick; FREED, RICHARD; Hanson, Howard; MUSIC; NEW MODELS, DESIGN AND PRODUCTS; Paray, Paul; REVIEWS; Starker, Janos
• ISSN: 0362-4331

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.