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...music which the Glee Club plans to sing includes works by Mozart, Bach, Handel, and such modern composers as Irving Fine and Henry Clark...
Other notable new releases: Bach's St. Matthew Passion, sung by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir and soloists under the direction of Sir Ernest MacMillan (Victor-Bluebird) ; Delius' A Mass of Life, performed by the Royal Philharmonic, with choir and soloists under Sir Thomas Beecham (Columbia) ; Mozart's Concerto in A Major, played by Clifford Curzon with the London Symphony under Josef Krips (London); Mozart's Symphony No. 40, played by the NBC Symphony under Arturo Toscanini (Victor...
Biggs disapproves of the still prevalent nineteen century fashion, which called for ever bigger and boomier organs, trying to compete with the symphony orchestra. He is dedicated to the "baroque" style, which to organists means the simpler, purer style of Bach's day. In his playing, Biggs rarely pulls all the stops. But despite his musical austerity, he can unbend. At an organists' convention he helped organize a few years ago, high points were a jam session of four organs playing...
...recital itself, said Biggs, was "a sort of compromise program: Handel, because after all he's buried here, Bach, then Daquin and Soler [both 18th century] for the traditionalists, Hindemith, Jehan Alain, a young French composer who was killed in World War II, finishing up with the Rondo from the Symphony in G by Leo Sowerby. Something for everyone, in fact." But not everyone in his audience approved. Playing with precise tranquillity, Biggs went through the program without ever playing full organ. The British, despite their reputation for restraint, like their organ music romantic and thunderous; Biggsie...
...staging miscalculation in Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 placed the harpsichord, with its top open, too far in front of the other soloists. Consequently, Dorothy Bales' violin was rarely audible and Howard Brown's flute tone almost completely lost. Joel Spiegel man played the extremely difficult keyboard part with impeccable technique and phrasing, but the total effect was unfortunately like a harpsichord concerto with occasional phrases for violin and flute...