Word: bach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...VIENNA FESTIVAL, 1959. The International Festival of the Vienna Concert House Society. Soloist's Concert. Nathan Milstein, violinist, plays works of J. S. Bach. (Broadcasting Foundation of America...
...Music Department will conduct the group on a tour of the music building and will answer questions about music at the University. John M. Ward, professor of Music and Chairman of the Department, hopes that the visitors will also be able to attend a special rehearsal of the Bach Society Orchestra Saturday...
...Allegro and the concluding "La Tempesta" (Haydn's cloudburst is Austrian naivete and gentility compared with Vivaldi's) they produced a sound richer and larger than the orchestra's numbers suggest. An even bigger sound could be heard in the substantial D minor piano concerto of Bach, in which the sonority of the opening unison belied the fact that the forces involved really amounted to an expanded chamber group...
Joel Sachs was the soloist, and though he was always musical his Bach seemed to me too fragile in places and too brusque in others. The employment of a Debussy pianissimo with generous use of the pedal is not always ideally suited to the baroque style. Yet Mr. Sachs showed he could play firmly and resonantly if he chose, even in mezza voce. The orchestral sections were rhythmical and well phrased...
...overture to Il Re Pastore (K. 208) by the 19-year-old-Mozart opened the program, and the orchestra played this delectable trifle crisply enough, though the same strings that were so impressive in the Bach sounded rather thin here. Even early Mozart can stand a good 25 violins. But Mr. Harbison has done good work with his players, making their attacks sharp, their rhythm excellent, and even raising the level of intonation. There is reason to expect more good things from the orchestra...