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Haggin, B. H. | October 13, 1945 issue

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Columbia's October list offers composer Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto, played by violinist Nathan Milstein with the New York Philharmonic-Symphony under orchestra conductor Bruno Walter. Milstein's performance of the solo part has the brilliance of his virtuosity and the straightforward phrasing of his sound musicianship, but also a tenseness and drive which, carried into the orchestral part, make this a high-powered performance of a lovely work that is not suited to such treatment. Its recorded sound is spacious and clear, but cold and dull, and with occasional buzzes. Composer Virgil Thompson's Five Portraits played by Thompson himself with the Philadelphia Orchestra makes no interesting sense in itself.

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COMPOSITION (Music); MUSICIANS; CONCERTS; ORCHESTRA; MUSIC; PERFORMING arts
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