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Augsburg (July 30-Aug. 11) has gone Italian. When the city fathers decided four years ago to get in on the festival boom and started looking around for an uncommitted composer, they found to ;heir distress that the supply of Germans iad been exhausted: Ansbach and Leipzig lad Bach; Bonn had Beethoven; Bayreuth had Wagner; Munich had Richard Strauss. Partly because they wanted a :omposer who had written enough to feed the festival for years, the Augsburgers aicked Verdi, and reminded visitors that :he city was once Germany's gateway to Italian commerce. This year Augsburg is offering Verdi...
Currently the Hi-Lo's are looking high and low for new material, are even experimenting with arrangements of classical music. "There is no reason," says Arranger Puerling, "why four voices can't do Air on the G String by Bach. It's not sacrilegious...
...music. Along with the big technique and virile style, Lipatti had a remarkable ability, as his teacher Nadia Boulanger noted, to "see better and hear more than we do." In the present, excellent Angel recording, there are few traces of the deadly strain under which Lipatti played. His Bach Partita No. 1 is as coolly articulated and elegant as a jeweled clock, and his Mozart Sonata No. 8 in A Minor (K. 310) seems the reflection of an absorbed and unruffled musical mind. Only an occasional slurred passage in the Chopin waltzes hints at the ordeal at the keyboard...
Also, the Bassoon. In the 1956-57 season, Piatigorsky has traveled 60,000 miles concertizing all over the world. Recently, he finished recording three Beethoven trios with Jascha Heifetz and William Primrose, and he has been invited to record Bach's six Unaccompanied Suites, long identified as a specialty of ailing Cellist Pablo Casals. Next season Piatigorsky will take a "sabbatical" to pursue two of his other interests-oceanography ("You know what oceanographers do on their vacation? They go in the water") and lizard and snake collecting ("It's extraordinary how intolerant people are about snakes"). But there...
...Bach, the recitative was not merely an easy way to eat up text and set the key for the next aria, but an integral part of the musical fabric. The founder of the Orchestra, Michael Greenebaum, was on hand for the concert, and he must have been pleased to hear it giving fine performances of such great music...