Once a Month
of new records (1YC) is nearly always a_ satisfactory lucky-dip}; in that the gifts are not only well packaged, but are never shoddy or second-hand. In _ this programme, Mr. Gray has introduced us to some of the very best of the new releases; and, when he has been able to play only excerpts, has whetted my appetite for the whole work. In his most recent session, he presented generous portions of the first complete recording of Berlioz’s Romeo and Juliet, made by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with chorus. Up to that time, I had, on the strength of the conventional recordings, imagined this work to be merely a kind of "tone-poem," but the new performance revealed it as a dramatic symphony, containing some interesting singing, and some quite fresh and exquisite music-a "must" for the connoisseur. New recordings by Toscanini and Horowitz completed a programme which combined quality with newness. Mr. Gray’s notes are informative, never garrulous, and pleasantly delivered. But I wondered about his pronunciation of Charles Munch’s name, Is it really Munk? GRAY’S monthly review
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 10
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180Once a Month New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 777, 11 June 1954, Page 10
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