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...poured out his grief at the loss of his nine-month-old daughter in a Requiem for Mary Jo, a jazz setting of the Methodist Order of Morning Prayer. Since then, he has written a score for Episcopal Evensong and is now working with Miller on A Pentecost Cantata...
...some of his most lyrically beautiful music. His next major work was the powerful opera King Priam, which marked a dramatic departure from anything he had done before. Spare, angular, dramatically taut, it has served as a jumping-off point for everything he is presently working on, notably a cantata drawn from the Confessions of St. Augustine, and a new and as yet untitled opera, which was commissioned by Covent Garden...
...BACH: CANTATA NO. 51 (Decca). "Make a joyful noise unto God," sings Soprano Judith Raskin as she proceeds to do so, outshining a trumpet obbligato in a series of brilliant salvos. It is a virtuoso performance of some of Bach's most difficult and florid arias, and Thomas Dunn's Festival Orchestra of New York is almost too unobtrusive...
...BACH: CANTATA NO. 211 (Nonesuch). Wearing his worldly wig, Bach wrote a miniature operetta called the Coffee Cantata. A father threatens every punishment to save his daughter from vice, but she persists: "If I don't get my coffee three times a day, I'm like a piece of dried-up meat." Coffee, she sings, is "better than a thousand kisses." A gay sprig of baroque music, the cantata is given an airy and stylish performance by the soloists, chorus and chamber orchestra of Radio Berlin...
...concert also featured the first East Coast performance of a cantata written last year by Randall Thompson, for mixed voiced, brass choir and harp. The second of the piece's three parts was pleasant; a lovely, smooth harp passage was answered softly by a muted trumpet and by the voices. "Blow up the trumpet in the new moon," the voices sang...