Word: bache
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
This success is convincing advertisers that selling does not necessarily depend on repetition: when WXHR premiered the Pablo Casals Bach recordings, the sponsor paid for eight programs of approximately one hour with only short commercials at the beginning and end of each program...
These orgies, held during each reading period, were begun in 1940. So far classical music from pre-Bach to modern has been featured, but starting Friday, bop, jazz, hillbilly, and opera take the spotlight...
...volume Prades Festival set (20 sides LP) makes record history. The performances were tape-recorded in a schoolhouse near the acoustically unsuitable Perpignan Cathedral, where the public performances were given. Although still not acoustically perfect (the piano sounds are particularly dull), the sum is a magnificent monument to Bach...
...Among the most outstanding are Volumes I and II, which include beautifully clear and simple performances of the six Brandenburg concertos, with such noted soloists as Violinists Joseph Szigeti, Alexander Schneider, Flutist John Wum-mer, Oboist Marcel Tabuteau. The chief interest in Volume III is The Musical Offering (which Bach began as an improvisation on a theme supplied by Frederick the Great). Volume VI contains two memorable performances: Casals playing the Sonata No. 3 for cello and piano, and Pianist Rudolf Serkin's performance of the Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue in D Minor and the Italian Concerto...
...Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier (Wanda Landowska, harpsichord; Victor, 2 sides LP). The second installment (Preludes and Fugues 9-16) of 71-year-old Harpsichordist Landowska's definitive "last will and testament" (TIME, June 20, 1949). Recording: excellent...