Abstract

Records

The article presents information on several musical recordings. Columbia has issued a new recording of the work by performers Ormandy and the Philadelphia Orchestra. The performance is a flamboyantly rhetorical one which some may consider just right for the work's own rhetorical excesses, while others may think these shouldn't be made still more excessive. Another performance of Johannes Brahms's "German Requiem," including a chorus by various performers including, Vienna Society of Friends of Music, the Vienna Philharmonic and under the direction of Herbart van Karajan. Another objectionable packaging jobs combines in one set is Bedrich Smetana's lovely "Die Moldau" and an unfamiliar and not very good work of Antonin Dvorak, his "Husitska" Overture.