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Since the full set runs to eight hours of playing time, most music lovers will want to pick and choose among the ten volumes. 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...
...Spandau and wrote Louis XVI's daughter Maria Therese a letter saying, "I am alive, your real brother. Ask me to prove it." Maria, then the Duchess of Angouleme, paid no attention, but others were more sympathetic. The mayor of Spandau believed Naundorff and took him to Brandenburg. There Naundorff was arrested for arson and jailed for counterfeiting, but two years later, on his release, he persuaded the Minister of Justice in nearby Crossen that he was the Dauphin. Eventually Naundorff moved on to Switzerland...
...strayed into the U.S. sector; in retaliation, the Russians arrested 23 Western policemen who were going home on the subway through the Red sector. In retaliation for that, 51 Eastern railway policemen were arrested in the Western sectors. Two days later, in an impressive ceremony near the Brandenburg gate, Eastern prisoners were solemnly exchanged for Western prisoners...
...opening concert was a good sampling of what was to come in the festival's three weeks. Sitting in hushed and churchly silence, the audience heard two Brandenburg concertos and the D-Minor Piano Concerto, with French Pianist Yvonne Lefebure as an outstanding soloist. In the Brandenburg No. 2, a soprano saxophone played one of the solo parts; the trumpeter brought from Paris could not keep up with Casals' driving tempo...
...Brandenburg Concert? (soloists and chamber group conducted by Fritz Reiner; Columbia, 6 sides LP). Dedicating the group "very humbly" to the Margrave of Brandenburg, in three of these Bach brought to perfection the concerto grosso form (in which a group of instruments instead of an individual soloist is pitted against an accompanying orchestra). Conductor Reiner balances his various instrumental voices like a master juggler, and gives the whole spacious warmth as well. Recording: good...