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ANNA MOFFO/LEOPOLD STOKOWSKI (RCA Victor). Miss Moffo sings Brazilian Com poser-Conductor Heitor Villa-Lobos' wanton Bachianas Brasileiras in a way that would excite Bach or any gypsy. Her voice has both richness and fluidity; her mood shifts with the song like quicksilver. In Canteloube's Songs of the Auvergne, she settles unfortunately into simpering sentimentality, which is not relieved by Stokowski's painfully slow pace...
...BACH: THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION (London). Karl Miinchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra give the masterpiece an interpretation that is lovingly faithful to Bach's design. It has an appropriately reverent quality rather than the overwhelming emotional thrust of massed voices that most often dominate baroque oratorios. Among the soloists, all competent, Peter Pears as the narrator and August Messthaler as Judas stand...
Other works on the program include Omnes Gentes by Jacob Handl; Psalm 84, by Heinrich Schutz; and two motets, Ich Lasse Dich Nicht, by J.C. Bach, and Warum ist Das Licht Gegeben, by Brahms. The small chamber chorus will offer four settings of the Ave Maria by Joaquin des Pres, Schutz, Verdi, and Stravinsky, in addition to the Trois Chansons by Debuzsy...
...young American lovers (Elizabeth Ashley, George Segal), a band of down-at-the-heel flamenco dancers led by Jose Greco, an anti-Semitic Nazi publisher (Jose Ferrer), a gentle Jewish salesman (Germany's Heinz Ruehmann) who can believe no evil of a nation that produced Goethe, Beethoven and Bach. Muses the worldly-wise ship's doctor (Germany's Oskar Werner) with deadly accuracy: "I've seen all these people before. They're on a ship, that...
...example, last week he participated in a symposium at the University of San Francisco on "Men and Civilization: Control of the Mind." Playing the six Bach sonatas for solo violin opened communication, and he spoke on the relations between performer, audience, and composer...