Word: bach
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Champion in such a manner that the clavecin and the timbres of the woodwinds and strings blend together unusually well. There is no profundity in this bit of Haydn; even the andante is a very short and simple tune. "His Master's Voice" has also released a recording of Bach's Double Piano Concerto in C major, played by the well-known English piano-duoists, Ethel Bartlett and Rae Robertson. The playing of the first two movements was rather unimaginative Bach, but a vigorous Presto, like of the Italian, Concerto, brought about rejuvenation by its own irresistible nature...
...Serge Koussevitzky, director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will sing the Bach B-Minor Mass together in the largest concert of the year at Symphony Hall tomorrow. The Mass will be sung by 170 members of the Glee Club and 130 members of the Choral Society, and they will be accompanied by 60 pieces of the Boston Symphony Orchestra...
...conventional ornaments for the sake of virtuosity are scarce. Menuhin's own playing is restrained in the classic traditional but always virile. "His Master's Voice" has recorded the Mozart sonata. Another recent recording by "His Master's Voice" is the great "Passacaglia and Fugue in C" of Bach, played by Marcel Dupre in good French style, perhaps too French...
...regular Cambridge concert of the Boston Symphony Orchestra was the occasion for the debut of Mr. Walter Piston as composer and conductor. Mr. Piston's Concerto for orchestra has obviously been inspired by the Brandenburg concerti of Bach for its general form of using the various choirs of the orchestra as collective soloists in the contrapuntal development of several themes. The opening theme is indeed very similar to that of the third Brandenburg. The harmonic development seems always to begin with the more orthodox manner and to court the modern idiom for complexity, at the same time employing modern modes...
...radio permits us to hear three unusually distinctive symphony concerts this week-end. Stokowski and the Philadelphia Orchestra will broadcast this afternoon from 2.30 P.M. to 4 P.M. over WABC a wholesome programme of Beethoven and Bach: the Leonore Overture No. 3 and the violin concerto in D major with Yehudi Menuhin as soloist, and then the Fugue in G minor, Prelude in E flat minor, and the Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F. On Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF the Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by Jesus Maria Sanroma, will play the Mozart Symphony in E flat major...