January Records

SYMPHONIC, ETC.

Chopin: Twelve Etudes, Opus 25 (Edward Kilenyi, pianist; Columbia; 6 sides). The famed Winter Wind, and other studies in their first complete edition, played fleetly, skin-deeply by a handsome young man who has yet to fulfill early promises.

Sibelius: Tapiola (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Sergei Koussevitzky conduct ing; Victor; 4 sides). The Finnish bard's bleak saga of his native forests, sturdily recounted by the Bostonians.

Paul Hindemith: Mathis der Maler (Matthias the Painter) (Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Eugene Ormandy; Victor; 6 sides). One of the most sinewy of contemporary scores, by a onetime German Kulturbolschewik now living in the U.S. This symphonic suite, taken from Hindemith's opera about 16th-Century Painter Matthias Gruenewald, describes three sections of Matthias' great Isenheim Altarpiece: Angelic Concert, Entomb ment, Temptation of St. Anthony. Glow ingly played and recorded.

William Boyce: The Prospect Before Us (Sadler's Wells Orchestra, conducted by Constant Lambert; Victor; 6 sides). Neglected 18th-Century Composer Boyce furnishes a mincing score (arranged by Lambert) for a ballet danced in London in 1940.

Wagner: Three Deathless Songs (Helen Traubel, soprano, with Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Leopold Stokowski; Victor; 4 sides). The title is Victor's, the songs Traeume (Dreams), Im Treibhaus (In the Greenhouse), Schmerzen (Afflictions) -- the first two studies for Tristan und Isolde. Traubel sings opulently.

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Take Your Shoes Off, Baby (And Start Running Through My Mind) (Artie Shaw; Victor). The new, bestringed Shaw band at its deftest; vocal by "Hot Lips" Paige.

Chelsea Bridge ("Duke" Ellington; Victor). Sound Ellington treatment of an original by Billy Strayhorn (Take the "A" Train).

A Souvenir Program (Paul Whiteman Orchestra; Victor Album). Ten sides (four previously unissued), with solos by the late great Trumpeter "Bix" Beiderbecke and vocals by Bing Crosby, made in 1928 when the Whiteman band was at its peak.

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