831 – 5577 E – Mail - Polyphony Recordings

LP's : RCA's - continued
873. LM-2311: BEETHOVEN - Piano Sonatas #18 & #21. Rubinstein. [Pfeiffer; Crawford;
inexplicably, never in stereo] [SD; 12S/10S] A-.............................................................................. 12.00
874. LM-2319: TCHAIKOVSKY - Piano Concerto Toscanini/NBC. [Live: April 25, 1943 war bond
concert] [SD; 1S/1S] A-(lovely!) ..................................................................................................... 20.00
875. LM-2325: MUSIC FOR FRUSTRATED CONDUCTORS - Works of Tchaikovsky, Bizet,
Vaughan Williams, Rodgers, Chabrier, J.Strauss, Kreisler, Partichela. Fiedler/BPS;
Gould/Orch; Bennett/RCA Sym. [Very nice copy which, for once, includes both the insert
and the nice baton packaged diagonally into the front of the box!] [TAS re stereo issue:
64:124] [SD; 1S/1S] A- .................................................................................................................... 35.00
876. LM-2330: BRAHMS - Piano Quartet, Op.60. Festival Quartet (Goldberg; Primrose; Graudan;
Babin). [Pfeiffer; Crawford] [SD; 1S/1S] A--(1/4-inch moderate scr sd 1)..................................... 10.00
877. LM-2345: TCHAIKOVSKY - 1812 Overture. RAVEL - Bolero. Gould/His Orch & Band;
Bells; Cannon. [Pfeiffer & Pulley; Layton] [SD; 5S/1S] A- ............................................................ 12.00
878. LM-2357: MUSSORGSKY - Pictures at an Exhibition. Horowitz, piano. [Live; Carnegie Hall;
April 23, 1951] [SD; 10S/10S] A-...................................................................................................... 9.00
879. LM-2361: S. HUROK PRESENTS - Short pieces performed by musicians represented by Hurok
(who are obviously RCA artists as well): Marian Anderson, Artur Rubinstein, Cesare
Valletti, Henryk Szeryng, Leonard Warren, Byron Janis, Gregor Piatigorsky, Roberta
Peters & Fritz Reiner. [with nice cover portrait of the impresario; mono-only issue] [SD;
1S/1S] A- .......................................................................................................................................... 20.00
880. LM-2382: BRAHMS - 3 Hungarian Dances. BENNETT - Song Sonata. SGAMBATI - Serenata
Napoletana. SAINT-SAENS - Havanaise (Steinberg/RCA Sym). Plus short pieces by
Shulman, Khatchaturian, Paganini, Kroll, Stravinsky, Ravel, Shostakovich, Debussy, Dinicu.
Heifetz, violin; Bay & Smith, pianists. [SD; 4S/2S] A-.................................................................. 16.00
881. LM-2389: BACH - Three-Part Inventions (#1, 2, 5, 11, 13-15); Two-Part Inventions (complete).
Wanda Landowska, harpsichord. [Memorial Album; Landowska gives a spoken introduction
to the Two-Part Inventions; mono-only issue] [SD; 1S/8S] A-- ...................................................... 12.00
882. LM-2412: SCHUMANN - Dichterliebe; Six other songs. Valletti; Taubman, piano. [Mohr;
Crawford] [SD; 1S/1S] A-................................................................................................................ 12.00
883. LM-2421: HENRYK SZERYNG IN RECITAL - Works of Tartini (Devil's Trill Sonata; Corelli
Variations), Vitali, Gluck, Kreisler, Chumann, Halffter-Heifetz & Wieniawski. Charles
Reiner, piano. [Very scarce issue, this was in print only from December 1960 until March of
1963. The Devil's Trill came back on VICS as filler for the Szeryng's recording of the
Tchaikovsky concerto, but I don't recall any of the others having been reissued on LP.] [SD;
1S/1S] A- to B+................................................................................................................................ 25.00
884. LM-2426: GAIL KUBIK - Symphony Symphony Concertante for Trumpet, Viola, Piano &
Orchestra (Composer/ORTF). CRESTON: Lydian Ode; Walt Whitman Suite
(Rescigno/Academy Symphony Orch of Rome). [Never in stereo; only in print June 1960 -
March 1962] [SD; 1S/1S] A--(Creston is B+).................................................................................. 32.00
885. LM-2453: OPERATIC ARIAS - Traviata, Macbeth, Pag, Rigoletto, Andrea, Gioconda,
Trovatore, Simon, Forza. Misc conductors/orchs. [SD; 1S/2S] A-.................................................. 12.00
886. LM-2488: FAURE - Sonata #1 for Violin & Piano. DEBUSSY - Sonata #3 for Violin & Piano.
Senofsky; Graffman. [Dellheim; Layton] [SD; 1S/1S] A-............................................................. 15.00
887. LM-2584: HOMAGE TO LISZT" - Funerailles; Au Bord d'une Source; Valse Oubliee #1;
Rakoczy March; Hungarian Rhapsodies #2 & 6; Sonetto del Petrarca #104. Horowitz, piano.
[SD; 3S/3S] A- ................................................................................................................................. 12.00
888. LM-2587: PIANO WORKS by Bach, Mendelssohn(2), Chopin(3), Handel, Rachmaninoff(4),
Tchaikovsky, Schubert & J.Strauss, Jr. Rachmaninoff, piano. [recorded 1927-42] [WD;
1S/3S] A- .......................................................................................................................................... 10.00
889. LM-2588: KHACHATURIAN - Piano Concerto (Koussevitzky/BSO); 18th Variation from
Paganini Rhapsody (Reiner/Robin Hood Dell); Albeniz Evocation; Liszt Mephisto Waltz.
Kapell, pf. [ND; 5S/12S] A- ............................................................................................................ 12.00
890. LM-2597: FLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS - The Glory (????) of the Human Voice. Magic
Flute, Lakme, Pearl of Brazil, Fledermaus; Songs by Liadov, McMoon & Bach (McMoon,
piano). JENNY WILLIAMS & THOMAS BURNS: A Faust Travesty (in English). [Album is
titled "The Glory (????) of the Human Voice"] [WD; 5S/1S] A- .................................................... 12.00