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...Bach. Last week Carmel again paid its tribute to the master with a full week of his music. A good many Carmelites frankly preferred the Shriners' circus in nearby Salinas. But those who gave Bach a try got preludes and fugues on the organ, cantatas, all the Brandenburg concertos and a few works by other 18th Century composers. The big event was two performances of the great B Minor Mass. It rated a B minus for Bach -the strings were uneven and the chorus occasionally mushy-but it deserved an A for effort...
...chamber orchestra closely approximates in size the orchestra for which Bach originally wrote. Saturday's performance will feature the Fifth Brandenburg Concerto, with David Allen of Boston at the piano, Clarence Taylor '49 on the flute, and Sarah Cunningham 1G of Radcliffe on the violin...
Boston Symphony (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3; Vaughan Williams' Fifth Symphony. Conductor: Serge Koussevitzky...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
...Bach: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 3 & 4 (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting; Victor, 8 sides). Koussevitzky uses four times as many musicians as Bach intended, which may scare the purists away. The recording, made in Koussevitzky's music shed at Tanglewood, Mass., is just about perfect. Performance: good...