Word: bache
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Cambridge Society for Early Music devoted all three of its concerts this fall to works by Johann Scbastian Bach. In the second concert, Ruth Posselt was the featured soloist in three of the rarely performed Sonatas for violin with harpsichord and continue. I admired especially the rhythmic vitality and sharpness of articulation which she brought to these works. Her dramatic vibrato, however, seemed out of place in the stately declamation of the E major Adagio, while the following Allegro sounded overly stiff, and other occasional nuances of mood were only slightly indicated. Yet within her conception, the performance was minutely...
This three-part series had a purpose beyond displaying the fecundity and variety of Bach's creation: the final concert focused upon the very axis of his work, the climax and culmination, both literally and figuratively, of his polyphonic genius, The Art of the Fugue. The first concert, as if in preparation, had featured The Musical Offering, whose ten canons and gigantic six voice fugue might be considered a complement to Bach's abstract on polyphony...
...program will include music by Byrd, Purcell, Bach, Rameau, and Arne...
...Glee Club will present the Damnation of Faust by Berlioz on the first broadcast, March 4, and Bach's B Minor Mass on the second, April 22. This performance of the Mass will be the first since the Glee Club sang it five years ago, when the late Serge Konssevitsky was conducting the Boston Symphony...
...motet Jesu, Meine Freude, which opened the Society's Sunday concert, exemplifies one difficulty peculiar to music for "chamber chorus." In a small group, Bach's vocal demands--no matter how great--cannot be conveniently ignored by concentrating purely on massed sound. When the Bach Society Chorus disappointed at all, it did so in technical respects. Conductor Howard Brown clearly brought out individual lines of counterpoint, but the sheer effort required to sing all the notes reasonably in tune resulted in a tone that was often coarse and piercing...