Word: brandenburg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brandenburg Party. String players invited to an open reading of Bach: Brandenburg No.4, D-Minor Harpsichord Concerto; Mozart: Horn Concerto No.3. Conductors, soloists, sherry, and cookies provided. Sunday, April...
...good sense of this policy was evident in the performance given Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 4. The ensemble size, ignoring questions of actual baroque performance practice, was well-suited to the dry acoustics of Sanders Theater. Even the continuo part was heard with soloists or full ensemble, a difficult achievement...
There are three solo parts in the Brandenburg, two for flutes and one for violin. Both flutists, Halley Schefler and Ann Hoffner, were in tune with each other and the orchestra. They played the andante with great delicacy. Their care and concentration were not duplicated by Lynn Chang, the violin soloist. Chang has an excellent reputation and has often carried the Bach Society violin section. While his playing in the first movement was controlled and understated, in the fugue he appeared hurried and ill at ease with the complex solo figurations. This was surprising since his technique far exceeds...
DUNSTER LIBRARY. Brandenburg Party. Open sight-reading of Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 and Symphony No. 30; and Bach: Concerto for Two Violins. Bring your music stand. Sunday, February...
Purcell: The Fairy Queen (English Chamber Orchestra, Ambrosian Opera Chorus, Benjamin Britten conducting; London; 2 LPs; $ 11.98). A master at conducting his own music, Britten has also in recent years given us fascinating interpretations of other composers' work −notably the Mozart G Minor Symphony and the Bach Brandenburg Concertos. The neglected Fairy Queen-half opera half masque-is perhaps his finest effort: vibrantly joyous, magisterial in its command yet tender in the plaints of the soloists (especially Bass John Shirley-Quirk's Next, winter comes slowly...