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...Stravinsky Octet is scored for flute, clarinet, bassoons, trumpets and trombone. In its exploration of the sonorous possibilities of an unusual chamber group, its purpose is similar to that of Bach Brandenburg Concerti and of various Mozart Serendates and Divertimenti. Its importance in modern music, however, lies in being one of the first works in the "neo-classic" style. Hearing the Octet today in light of all that has followed it in the past 30 years, its dry metrically incisive, often mocking tone seems no longer revolutionary. Yet it still remains a fresh, thoroughly delightful work...
Their leader, who makes his cathedral headquarters in the Marienkirche, is one of the world's great churchmen: Friedrich Karl Otto Dibelius, 72, bishop of the Berlin-Brandenburg diocese and, as head of the united German Evangelical Church, the primate of all German Protestants. Jailed by the Nazis and now denounced and threatened by the Communists, Bishop Dibelius is the foremost Protestant champion of the rights of the church against an aggressive secular state. He mans one of the church's most exposed positions against a Communist attack, which daily grows clearer and more severe. Three-quarters...
...Church Council of the Berlin-Brandenburg diocese named Otto Dibelius as its bishop. With all the prestige of his new title, he began a continuing effort toward two goals: 1) preserving the church's ministry in East Germany; 2) trying to do what he could for German unification, so that the two halves of the Protestant Germany might be brought together...
...second big excursion is Westminster's Six Brandenburg Concertos (3 LPs), in which the London 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...
Bach's Fourth Brandenburg Concerto is the kind of music that loses all its effectiveness without a graceful, polished performance. The orchestra gave it just that. Flutists Kathleen Henry and Karin Peterson played easily and lucidly, while Sandor Shapiro's violin performance was appropriately subdued. The string section and Daniel Pinkham's harpsichord supplied a carefully integrated accompaniment...