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...same key written when Mozart was still in his teens. But if ever a score deserved that adjective without qualification, it is K. 427. Composed in 1782-83, its style looks backward to the cantata-type Mass of Bach's day, but its expressiveness and symphonic drive anticipate Beethoven and the romantic era. The performance, led by Conductor-Musicologist Leppard, would be worth having at any price. Offered on Angel's low-priced Seraphim line, it is not to be missed...
...Beethoven: Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92 (The Marlboro Festival Orchestra, Pablo Casals, conductor; Columbia; $6.98). Few performances of this eloquent work can stand comparison with the 1936 recording by Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic (still available on RCA Victrola). This one can. Taped during a live performance in 1969 when Casals was 93, it is a summing up of all the attributes associated with him as a conductor: full-blooded sonorities, razor-sharp attacks, irresistible rhythms, shadings of almost chamber-music delicacy. Are there more like this in the Columbia vaults...
Richard Kogan, piano; Lynn Chang, violin; and Yo-Yo Ma, cello, perform Beethoven warhorses. Sanders Theater...
Stephen Crist, piano, performs pieces of Chopin, Bach and Beethoven. Dunster House Library...
...cello; Lydia Artimiw, piano, interpret works of Beethoven, Mendelssohn and Schumann. Cabot Living Room, South House...