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...performance of the Chaconne from Bach's D minor Partita is bound to fall short. The notorious difficulty of the piece makes it virtually unplayable, and any evaluation must be based on a comparison with some mythical perfect performance. Criticism thus becomes even more subjective than usual. Mr. Fuchs' idea of the music as a gradual build-up in tension followed by a gradual release, with regularly-spaced interludes of quasicommentary, is extremely provocative. His failure to sustain and integrate this conception was caused primarily by the physical demands of multiple-stops and prodigious leaps that frequently leave interpretation behind...
...Assistant Secretary of State to replace Careerman John Moors Cabot (see above), President Eisenhower had reached into the offices of Houston's prosperous law firm of Baker, Botts, Andrews & Shepherd. Henry Holland, 41, is a hardtraveling, top-rank lawyer who likes to hear Bach or Beethoven on his high-fidelity record player at breakfast...
...Bach and Scarlatti were precise contemporaries yet the coupling of their works produced a striking juxta-position. The immensely powerful, almost gruff joyfulness of Bach's final variation and the lofty simplicity of the closing aria still lingered in my mind as Mr. Kirkpatrick returned after intermission and performed in immediate succession three 1) major Scarlatti sonatas which displayed to an extreme degree elements of exotic Spanish fury. These elements are all the more powerful in Scarlatti because they seem to burst forth from the refined and lyrical Italian style in which he was trained. For me, Mr. Kirkpatrick...
These references to Mr. Kirpatrick's writings (specifically to his Scarlatti biography and his edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations) would find no place in this discussion of his Sanders Theatre recital yesterday afternoon did I not fell that they might help convey the sense of dedication with which he seems to approach specific composers as well as the craft of performing. Furthermore the fruits of this scholarship allow Mr. Kirkpatrick to attain an expressive range which is at once bounded by historical conventions and freely guided by his own taste and sensibility...
Yesterday's program consisted of The Goldberg Variations by Bach and ten late sonatas by Scarlatti. These sonatas are one movement works, more nearly resembling the form of a Baroque dance movement than the first movement of a Classical sonata...