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Victoria de los Angeles and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau in Duets (Gerald Moore, pianist; Angel). Purcell, Bach, Beethoven, Berlioz and Tchaikovsky are among the composers visited in this beautiful introduction to a part of the vocal repertory now rarely heard in the concert hall...
Angel now also offers one of the best recordings of J.S. Bach's Magnificat in D (Angel 45027). Here, again is tenor Richard Lewis, and his Deposuit potentes de sede is one of the clearest and most satisfying interpretations of that aria: Geraint Jones conducts his own capable orchestra. On the same record is a performance of Henry Purcell's magnificent and rarely heard Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary (quite unseasonal, to be sure, but it is probably this fact of its co-billing that leads us to prefer Jones's recording). Her Malesty died from the smallpox...
That dwindling band of eighteenth-century gentlemen (that was once, in former years, the mainstay of this institution) will be cheered by the bracing news that it now has a Christmas record all to itself. Called An Eighteenth-Century Christmas, it's put out by Vanguard (Bach Guild BG-569) and includes Corelli's Christmas Concerto, Torelli's Pastoral Concerto for the Nativity, several pieces by J.S. Bach, and the Haydn Toy Symphony (by Leopold Mozart). I Soloisti di Zagreb are the instrumentalists (charmin' fellahs) and they are led by Antonio Janigro...
From Tison Street, soloist Sunday night in Bach's Violin Concerto in E major, one naturally expected a good job. Besides being an outstanding student of composition in the department of music, he has concertmaster of the Bach Society Orchestra since his senior year in high school. But Mr. Street showed himself not only competent to handle a treacherously difficult concerto; he and Bentley Layton's gem-like little orchestra, made the concerto exciting...
From this indictment, I would except Laudes de Saint Antoine de Padoue by Francis Poulenc, Repleti Segne Euch from Bach's Cantata 196. Harvard sang the first with an admirable attention to pitch (except for an occasional flattening in the tenors) and ended up particularly well with a vigorous Gloria Patri. Yale used a semi-chorus in the balcony in its clean and well-paced rendition of the Handl. And both groups merged to perform the Bach in a competent, if not inspiring, manner...