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...HUROK PRESENTS (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Pianist Artur Rubinstein playing Beethoven, Violinist David Oistrakh performing Bach, and the Bolshoi Ballet in an excerpt from Giselle...
Richter considers not visual art but music "my principal inspiration." As a child in Berlin, he became fascinated with the impeccable synthesis of logic and rhythm found in the fugues of J. S. Bach. His rhythmically fragmented paintings of musicians made under the cubist-futurist influence around 1914, show him striving for a visual emulation of Bach's counterpoint...
...string quartet; as teacher of courses for music concentrators, he is tireless in his efforts to spread the gospel according to Schoenberg. Yet Friday night there he was, conducting the Cantata Singers and an ensemble of Boston-area professionals in a program consisting solely of music by J. S. Bach...
Kirchner conducted the three cantatas with his peculiar blend of romanticism and objectivity. His own music displays a predilection for big chords and thick, lush sonorities, and this love of sound for its own sake carried over into his interpretation of the Bach. Kirchner demanded a full-bodied sound from his small ensemble. Occasionally his insistence backfired, as in the final chorus of "ewiges Feuer" (BWV 34) where the sopranos had to force and went noticably sharp. Most of the choruses were full of dramatic dynamic contrasts, crescendi and decrescendi. And Kirchner had no qualms about taking expressive liberties with...
...than one larger but less precisely controlled. Like all human performers, the group had its moments of weakness: sloppy ensemble, faulty intonation, a tendency (especially among the men) to expend force at the beginning of a phrase and then be unable to carry it through to the end. But Bach's voice writing, though beautiful, is quite impossible to perform, and the group has to be admired for its accomplishment. The performance was neither too fussily "authentic" nor embarrassingly emotive. It was simply musicianly...