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FOR once in a way opera must take a back seat. I feel sure that it won't be so next quarter, with the Solti Walkiire, the Sutherland Serniramide and goodness knows what other big events; but this time everything else must yield to Beethoven's Alissa Solemnis, of which two outstanding versions...

A highly attractive Brunswick record, called "Early Baroque Music of Italy" (mono AX.A4539 stereo SXA4539) must be one of the last made by the New York Pro Musica group under their lamented founder and director, the late Noah Greenberg; the same clarity and sense of style are shown here by the...