Word: cantata
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...selections by Handel, a violin sonata and a solo cantata, proved disappointing. They are undistinguished occasional pieces, quite flattering to one of the real geniuses...
Haydn: Arianna a Naxos (Jennie Tourel; Haydn Society). The Greek legend of Ariadne appealed strongly to Haydn. When he was 58 he wrote a short, melodious and seldom-heard solo cantata in which the abandoned princess bemoans her fate. Mezzo-Soprano Tourel sings it in warm Italian. The accompaniment is played by Ralph Kirkpatrick on a recreated 18th century piano...
After a somewhat colorless cantata by Buxtchude, the audience found itself four centuries after Machaut and finally on more familiar ground with Bach's cantata No. 32, Liebster Jesu, mein Verlangen. The performance, featuring two excellent soloists, Jean Lunn, soprano, and Vincent Allison, baritone, was smooth and often moving. Violinist Helena Pappenheimer and oboeist Robert Freeman also deserve special commendation for their rendition of the instrumental obbligatos...
...more clarity than a booming mass chorus and far more power than the usual smaller ensemble. In three intricate chansons by Debussy and three more by Ravel, his singers performed with gymnastic precision. Finally they went on to the first U.S. performance of Bela Bartok's exotic secular cantata, The Enchanted Deer, and handled it with perfect form and ease...
...cantata by the composer Robert Delaney was heard for the first time in 20 years last night when "John Brown's Song" was performed in Sanders Theatre by the Harvard Summer School Chorus. The work was first played in 1931, under the direction of G. Wallace Woodworth, former director of the Harvard Glee Club...