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Davison, who is doing graduate work in the Harvard music department, warmed up with the Preclude from Bach's Fourth English Suite-a routine piece, mechanically played. After a pleasant set of Variations by Buxtehude, Davison Joined with violinist Paul Revitt to play Schubert's Duo Sonata, (op.162). Despite the high opus number, it is a product of Schubert's youth, full of happy tunes and harmonic surprises. But Revitt's thievish tone and generally erratic technique made thorough enjoyment of the price difficult. Three Brahms Intermezzi followed, all of them receiving broad, well-molded performances...
...Bach Festival (Sat. 4 p.m., CBS). With Rose Bampton, Lydia Summers, Harold Haugh, Norman Farrell...
...arranging got him high marks, and he worked for such bandleaders as Tommy Tucker and Claude Thornhill, looking for ideas in his favorite composers -Stravinsky, Ravel, Prokofiev and Bach. When he turned to playing, he could blow ragtime, Dixieland, the blues and bop, but he refused to be categorized: "It would be senseless to start playing and sound like anybody else...
Having explored Beethoven pretty thoroughly (TIME, Jan. 12), record companies are turning back to Bach. The biggest new excursion into his music comes from the Haydn Society, which has recorded the complete Clavier Übung on seven excellent LPs, with Ralph Kirkpatrick playing the harpsichord and Paul Callaway the organ. The title means "Keyboard Practice," but, far from being a series of exercises, the music was designed by Bach for "spiritual enjoyment...
...Baroque Ensemble gives a lively, bright performance. For listeners who enjoy a small ensemble, it is as good a recording as any on the market, although it ducks the real test: the usual high-trilling trumpet is replaced by ancient recorders. Three famous old names are on other new Bach releases: Pablo Casals, in reissues of the unaccompanied Cello Suites Nos. 2 & 3, Wanda Landowska playing the fifth in her harpsichord version of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier (both Victor), and Albert Schweit er (Columbia), in massive, square-hewn readings from the master's organ works Other new records...