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...Radcliffe senior began with Bach's French Suite No. 3. She played the seven sections as they deserve to be played--not as finger exercises but as lively, subtle dances. In fact, each piece on the program seemed to receive exactly the performance it was created for. Miss Drooker played Scriabin's quietly expressive Nocturne for Left Hand (op. 9, no. 2) without falling into the usual traps of excessively free rhythm and over-pedaling. Her graceful, well-paced renditions of Debussy's Passepied, from the Suite Bergamasque, and Minstrels showed how effective these can be when they are played...
...Bach: Suites Nos. 4 & 5 (Lillian Fuchs viola; Decca). A rare chance to hear the darkling tones of the violin's big cousin played at its best. Violist Fuchs gives the unaccompanied works as much verve as if she were supported by a full symphony...
Other new releases: Nine Beethoven bympnomes (Victor), with Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony (hand somely packaged at $52.40); Bach and Handel Arias (London), sung by Contralto Kathleen Ferrier with the London Philharmonic, conducted by Sir Adrian Boult; Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé-Complete Ballet (London), with the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande and the Geneva Motet Choir conducted by Ernest Ansermet...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Works of Vaughan Williams, Berlioz and Bach...
While the Diamond music is occasionally exciting despite its lack of form, Handel's Fourth Concerto Grosso is a piece of soprific craftsmanship. Superficially similar to the Bach Bradenburg Council, it has none of their vitality and immediacy. The orchestra gave it a brisk, smooth run-through...