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...Bach Brandenburg Concertos (Busch Chamber Players; Columbia; 2 volumes, 27 sides). A reissue of a definitive and historic Bach recording. Trumpeter George Eskdale plays some of the most remarkable coloratura ever achieved on a brass instrument...
...particular, mainly because he wrote so much music that is not suited to present-day mediums of performances, has been the transcriber's prize scapegoat. Johann Sebastian Bach has suffered more at the hands of conductors and who-knows-whats than should happen to even a composer. The Brandenburg Concerti, for example, are written for small groups of string instruments, yet they have been presented, as is also the case with the Corelli Suite for Strings, with entire symphony or chestra string sections. It is true that the music had been transcribed. What that nasty word seems to have consisted...
...Hall heard one of the most varied and successful programs of the year, which included everything from Bach to Brahms, Strauss, Wolf and Borodin. If the before mentioned concert proved that unknown works can be a success, this proved that known quantities can be even more so. The Third Brandenburg Concerto in G Major is a tried and trusted quantity, although one might have wished for a few less strings than the Boston Symphony can throw into the fray at any time. Previously this year, more than competent performances of Thus Spake Zarathustra and Don Quixote were heard...
When they came down, they shook the earth and the walls trembled. Along Unter den Linden fountains of flame exploded. The Hedwigsdom, Berlin's Roman Catholic cathedral, collapsed. Up near the Brandenburg Gate and along the Wilhelmstrasse incendiaries sprinkled the governmental quarter, where the Foreign Office, the Reich President's palace and Hitler's huge Chancellery stand in a row. This was Berlin's heart and the administrative center of the Third Reich. Here the attackers' blockbuster bombs created havoc, and there were many Berliners who never saw daylight again...
...program is rounded off by nothing less than Bach's great orchestral suite in C major, a work with the symphonic proportions of one of its composer's Brandenburg concertos. All in all, the concert has a richness that harks back to the days when German orchestras used to play two concerti and two symphonies in one evening. The Boston Symphony could well take a hint from its rivals across the Charles...