Word: bache
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bach: Three Part Inventions (Erno Balogh, pianist; Disc, 6 sides). The master's 15 instruction exercises turned into bubbling little masterpieces by a fastidious musician. First U.S. recording. Performance: good...
...Balinese musicians listened with polite boredom to a Bach fugue. They caught the rhythms of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong records at once, but the singing confused them. To American Musicologist Colin McPhee, the Balinese orchestra leader blurted: "Your music is like someone crying! Up and down, up and down, for no reason at all ... like a bird with a broken wing...
Salt Lake Tabernacle (Sun. 11:30 a.m., CBS). Choir and organ in sacred music by Bach, Handel, Mendelssohn...
...past six seasons he has played 380 concerts, and in so doing has not simply repeated old warhorses. His huge repertoire includes all the piano works of Bach, all of Mozart's solo pieces and 21 piano concertos, all of Beethoven's sonatas and five piano concertos, and Schubert's sonatas. Schumann and Debussy are still to go, but not Liszt. Says he: "There is not enough good Liszt . . . too many things...
Last April he went back to Europe. In Rome he conducted Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and was cheered. In Milan's La Scala he was such a success that a repeat concert was scheduled. In Paris he earned bravos with the rarely performed Second Symphony of Bruckner. Last week before an international audience in the Swiss mountain resort of Interlaken, Otto Klemperer conducted the great old 120-piece Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra...