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Haggin, B. H. | November 19, 1949 issue

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The article presents views of the author various music recordings. From RCA Victor comes one of the year's outstanding recordings-of composer Igor Stravinsky's "Orpheus" performed by a Victor orchestra under his direction. This is music which, for all its use of elements of Stravinsky's late style, is essentially of the kind of "L'Oiseau de fat" and "Le Batser de la fée"-music," that is, for a stage work, which is unlike most of his music in being, for its dramatic purposes, directly expressive and which includes pages as hauntingly lovely and touching and as dramatically powerful as some in "L'Oiseau" and "Le Baiser." The performance is characteristically clear and strong and is excellently reproduced by the 78 r.p.m. records.

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SOUND recordings; STRAVINSKY, Igor, 1882-1971; MUSIC; COMPOSITION (Music); RCA Victor (Company); ORCHESTRA; MUSICIANS
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