Word: angele
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anxious Age. A religious mystic, Baldung made his nocturnal Nativity into a stage set dark with symbolism. In the eerie ruin, light glows from a trinity of sources: a misty moon, an angel announcing Christ's birth to a shepherd, and Jesus himself, who casts a cool white aura over Mary and Joseph...
CABARET. Onto the sleazy canvas of a 1930 Berlin nightspot, the Kit Kat Klub, this musical squeezes the borrowed pigments of bloatedly satiric George Grosz cartoons, Brecht-Weillschmerz, and the black-gartered cinemantics of the Dietrich of The Blue Angel. A whale of a production but a minnow of a show...
BEETHOVEN: MISSA SOLEMNIS (2 LPs; Angel). Otto Klemperer conducts the New Philharmonia Orchestra and Chorus in a surging declaration of faith that should sweep away all earlier versions of the work, including his own. A second new recording, by Herbert von Karajan (on Deutsche Grammophon), approaches the music more humanly and pleadingly -and the effect is surprisingly persuasive. His orchestra is the Berlin Philharmonic and two soloists are especially fine: Gundula Janowitz and Christa Ludwig. For majesty, take Klemperer; for beauty, Von Karajan...
VAUGHAN WILLIAMS: HODIE (Angel). This first recording of Williams' cantata has some exuberant, even jazzy moments, but the general mood is sweetly hushed and hymnlike -a reverent setting for various poetic passages about Christmas, such as Thomas Hardy's Oxen and Milton's Hymn on the Morning of Christ's Nativity. David Willcocks turns in his usual impeccable performance as director of the several choruses and the London Symphony Orchestra...
...Seasons. "Sir Thomas More is a man of angel's wit and singular learning, a man of marvelous mirth and pastimes, and sometimes of as sad gravity: a man for all seasons...