Word: bache
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RECORDS BACH: THE SIX PARTITAS (Columbia). Musical paleontologists are invariably scandalized by Glenn Gould's approach to Bach: he plays the sublime master with more love of the living than respect for the dead. Such inspired impishness occasionally leads him astray, but here his genius conspires with his artistry, matching a deep rapport with the spirit of the music with a lofty regard for the voice of the piano...
...BACH: THE GOLDBERG VARIATIONS, Vols. I and II (London). Harpsichordist George Malcolm never disobeys his metronome or his score, and the glimmer of life that survives has all the dignity of age with none of the frailties...
...would pay much attention if Sonny Liston reported that a Bach concerto failed to excite him; similarly, no one should pay much attention when I report that the Moscow Circus failed to excite me. Even as a small boy, I was too stodgy to be captured by the romance of Ringling Brothers or the neighborhood carnival. But one can be impressed without being excited. I certainly...
Last Saturday, Thomas Dunn conducted the first of three evenings of Bach in Sanders Theatre. Precise, but not pedantic, exact, yet exuberant, he and the Festival Orchestra of New York danced through the dance movements of the rarely performed Suite No. 1 in C major...
...next concert (October 21), the New York Chamber Soloists will join Dunn and the Festival Orchestra to present The Musical Offering. Even at the Dunn's interpretation of this musical retort to Frederick the Great should be worth hearing. Certainly Dunn's first batch of Bach last Saturday...