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...popular tune like All the Things You Are, Pianist Brubeck and Saxophonist Paul Desmond toss the theme back & forth for a while. Then, before long, the tune disappears and in its place, stream-of-consciousness style, come whimsical variations hinting at everything from Stravinsky to Gershwin to Bach. When he comes to his solo part, Brubeck picks a random theme and toys with it, reflectively trying it first on the white keys, then on the black, allowing traces of Mozart or John Philip Sousa to creep in. Then his eyes close, his head weaves, and the music settles into...
...ambitious task in three recitals of baroque vocal music at Paine Hall Wednesday. In such Italian works as those of Carissimi, Caccini, and Monteverdi, she presented some of the earliest samples of the "new music," a dramatic vocal style evolving during the latter 16th century. In works by Bach, Buxtehude, Couperin, Rameau, A. Scarlatti, and Maurice Greene she traced some of the greatest developments of this style during the following century and a half. The programs were discriminately chosen and revived much music of historical interest and great beauty...
...program featured two Bach contatas, Nos. 51 and 202, for soprano and chamber orchestra. It was a taxing assignment for the soloist and Miss Lunn showed signs of strain near the end of the program. Her voice is by no means powerful and her approach to the music is restrained and undramatic. The opening of the secular cantata Weichet ner, betrubte Schatten, for example, dragged on quite feebly and missed altogether the suggestion of mysterious forces of nature at work during the changing of the seasons...
Alessandro Scarlatti: Sonata a Quattro (New Music Quartet; Bartok). A pre-Bach genius (1660-1725) who specialized in operas and cantatas, Scarlatti was one of the first to write a real string quartet. This one, full of surprising glints and glows, is played to perfection by one of the U.S.'s finest ensembles. On the same disk: quartets by Tartini and Boccherini...
Other noteworthy new releases: Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Magnificat (Vienna State Opera Orchestra) ; Akademie Choir and soloists conducted by Felix Prohaska; Bach Guild, 2 LPs); Conrad Beck: Viola Concerto (Walter Kagi; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jean Meylan; London); Beethoven: "Kreutzer" Sonata (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Benno Moïséiwitsch, piano; Victor...