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Show f Recording Hista By ED OBLAD The faith of the recording industry: American buying public has been slowly ire ever since the introduction of stereo and Ve burn's one million sales disc of Tchaikoxsky's: Concerto No. 1. The year 1963 revealed conn speculation in the grandoise large album a; as singles of lesser performed works of est: composers or the more prominent works of known composers. THE THIRTY-TWO Beethoven sort piano recorded by Artur Schnabel for Angel is of the nature of a pioneer achievement. It teen-record album is a reissue of Schnabel's' M discs of the early 1930's, and except fort surface noise of recording of such vint? eloquence of this microgroove set is unsurp; The performances have their innumerable j moments and their few not-so-good, but - a project of this size one human being can on. to get within shouting distance of suck a of the virtual essence of the human dram:- compassed by Beethoven in these mastery , . piano- i. ct V"H The four and one-half hour Bach St l Passion (Angel) has the idyllic art of l ' Fischer-Dieskau, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf an Ludwig and is the long-awaited standard J all performances of this work (including tt- t ' ing performance in the Tabernacle) cante.-fJ FOR THE ADDICTS of big-screen stentorian Wagnerian tetralogy The Nibelung has been completed by Lonc with the release of Siegfried on five stew you can take Ben-Hur's chariot race, then) -be able to contain yourself with wagn forging, anvil pounding, fire breaW dragons) and unconquerable hero music p . gargantuan Vienna Philharmonic (M ing) whose brass ensemble for this p outnumbers our Utah Symphony s w section- , . nas ; Along with London's stereo Ms 1952 Bayreuth taped Die Gctterdaentf RCA Victor's Die Walkuere, there nu discs fifteen hours of what has been of two world wars. rJ . c;blius ' ' THE MUSIC OF Grieg and admired in' the United States, and a essence of the northern kingdoms n traction for the Americans, the moreUr:" of these Scandinavian masters have ( played into the ground on home ski . Leonard Bernstein and the Jvfe harmonic have given us fresh m 0 Symphony of Danish Carl Nielsen. W f;: viewpoint this symphony caI t-he islet ' tf li fabled coast line and expanses of l to defy the diabolic oceans and us j,;::: ' of conquers that have made DenI"' ftt of the most colorful in the repertory I |