Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MUSIC OF THE RESURRECTION (NBC, 2-3 p.m.). An Easter special that will present music from the 5th century to the present, including works by Bach, Brahms, Poulenc and Tournemire...
BILL EVANS, who usually stresses simplicity, has surrounded himself with strings for some improvisations on Bach, Chopin, Scriabin and Granados (Bill Evans Trio with Symphony Orchestra; Verve). It is best, and easy, to forget that Bach had anything to do with the gentle, romantic schmalz called Valse, but this and the other adaptations are pleasant displays of Evans' skilled, introspective and sometimes sentimental piano playing...
...BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, BOOK 1 (3 LPs; Columbia). Glenn Gould is now halfway through Bach's magnificent "exercises," performing the first 24 preludes and fugues on the piano. There are times when Gould hams it up, and there are certainly too many of his infamous hums, but he makes the pieces spring to life with bold overall conceptions, marvelous technique and vaulting lines...
SCARLATTI: 51 SONATAS (3 LPs; Cambridge). Harpsichordist Albert Fuller has made a representative but unhackneyed selection of 16 early, 17 middle and 18 late sonatas (though all were published after Scarlatti was 54). The pieces, paired like Bach's preludes and fugues, are miniature marvels-many with a flamenco flavor-and Fuller dashes them off with robust energy and vivid coloration. His interpretations, however, lack the poetry and variety that Fernando Valenti brings to Scarlatti. Valenti has recorded 29 LPs (346 sonatas), most of which are available on Westminster...
Because Johann Sebastian Bach hymned religiously in dozens of soaring masses, magnificats, motets and fugues and developed the contrapuntal organ that still accompanies the Gregorian chant, three pious Venetian music lovers wrote the Vatican's weekly Osservatore Delia Domenica that he should be considered for sainthood. Alas, replied Theologian Benvenuto Matteucci, a Protestant is a Protestant, however sublime his music. "There is an esthetic and artistic religious sentiment in his musical expressions," Monsignor Matteucci sympathized, "but it is only through the true and only church of Christ that salvation and sainthood come." So Lutheran Bach must remain unbeatified except...