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...Second Deadly Sin, Sanders (7) 10. Illusions, Bach...
...classical works aplenty will be offered this week in Cambridge and Boston. Banchette Musicale begins its season on Friday with a performance of baroque and classical music on original instruments. The orchestra will perform Telemann's Ouverture for Oboes, Horns, Bassoon and Strings, concerti by Stamitz and Tartini, and Bach's Cantata 170. Show up at 8:30 in Paine Hall, Music Building. Tickets are $2.50 at the door or by calling...
Flutist Jeffrey Cohan, winner of the 1977 Erwin Bodky Award for Early Music, and Harpsichordist Aline Parker, winner prizes from Paris Conservatory, will present a program of French baroque flute sonatas. Cohan and Parker will go through music by Bach, Hotteterre, de la Barre, and Blavet at the Friends Meeting House, 5 Longfellow Park, off Brattle St. Doors open at 7:30. The charge is $2.50 for students...
...program opened with J.S. Bach's Overture No. 3 in D major, a sumptuous orchestral suite in the style of the French Baroque. The work's first movement separates a stately introduction and conclusion with a glittering allegro. Here Wilkins's interpretation was scrupulously authentic, notably in the crisply dotted rhythms, and the orchestra responded with elegance and delicacy. The one glaring weakness here and throughout the entire piece came from the crucial (and difficult) D trumpets: instead of flashing above the orchestra with fluid precocity, they squeaked and quavered vaguely in the background...
...final work, Ralph Vaughan Williams's "Serenade to Music," the Bach Society was joined by the Harvard University Choir. Written to a Shakespeare text in 1938, the serenade fortunately has become a gem of the choral repertoire, a consummately felicitous welding of poetry and music. The Bach Society's performance was truly gorgeous--all moonlight and velvet shadow. The chorus blended into a cool wave of sound, plumbing the music's dreamy depths without sacrificing a sparkling diction. The soloists, particularly soprano Ellen Burkhardt, were uniformly fine. The orchestra matched them in ethereal luster as a glossy violin solo...