Word: bache
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...good sense of this policy was evident in the performance given Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4. The ensemble size, ignoring questions of actual baroque performance practice, was well-suited to the dry acoustics of Sanders Theater. Even the continuo part was heard with soloists or full ensemble, a difficult achievement...
...violin. Both flutists, Halley Schefler and Ann Hoffner, were in tune with each other and the orchestra. They played the andante with great delicacy. Their care and concentration were not duplicated by Lynn Chang, the violin soloist. Chang has an excellent reputation and has often carried the Bach Society violin section. While his playing in the first movement was controlled and understated, in the fugue he appeared hurried and ill at ease with the complex solo figurations. This was surprising since his technique far exceeds the music's demands...
...third excellent wind soloist, Stephen Hammer, played the oboe for Bach Cantata No. 56. His contribution was the most exciting aspect of the piece. His phrasing of the obbligato line in the second aria demonstrated a facility with the instrument coupled with great sensitivity to precise imitation. The basso for the cantata, David Evitts, had been recruited in extremely short order. He sounded tired, with several lapses of diction and little variation of timbre or volume. In general, he was a shadow of the big, confident singer he had been just one night before as soloist with the Collegium...
...performances were badly hurt by the neglect of the Bach Society management. Their priorities in printed program material for the audience are in need of revision. There was no translation of the German for the Bach; and no original text, translation, or even title published in the program for the Handel. It is far too much to ask of a performer that his audience listen in total ignorance of the words. This neglect is even more glaring in light of the orchestra's willingness to publish the original soloist's biography on an insert that could have been...
...Bach D Minor Concertowas given a solid performance with Gregory Shatten. There was an occasional disagreement in tempo between solo and conductor and some mechanical-sounding scale passages, but Shatten's playing covered a wide range of emotions. He maintained a beautiful soft volume in parts of the first movement and concluded it with a brilliant cadenza...