Word: cantatas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...third excellent wind soloist, Stephen Hammer, played the oboe for Bach Cantata No. 56. His contribution was the most exciting aspect of the piece. His phrasing of the obbligato line in the second aria demonstrated a facility with the instrument coupled with great sensitivity to precise imitation. The basso for the cantata, David Evitts, had been recruited in extremely short order. He sounded tired, with several lapses of diction and little variation of timbre or volume. In general, he was a shadow of the big, confident singer he had been just one night before as soloist with the Collegium...
Evitts also sang a minor Handel Italian cantata. The accompaniment was only of continuo instruments: harpsichord and cello. In these intimate circumstances, Evitts sounded much better...
Bach Society Orchestra. Bach: Brandenberg Concerto No. 4, Cantata No. 56 (Justino Diaz, basso, soloist), Piano Concerto in D Minor (Tedd Joselson, soloist); Handel: an Italian cantata (Diaz). Tickets: $.95. Saturday, April...
Choir. The University Choir gave a spectacular performance of the Bach Cantata No. 131 last Sunday. The Motet they will sing this Sunday afternoon should be very good. The Motets are to singers what string quartets are to violinists: a form more easily appreciated by performers than by listeners. Just a warning to those who might expect to hear in the motet the more varied timbres of a cantata orchestration. --Kenneth Hoffman...
SANDERS THEATER--Cantata Singers. Bach: Cantatas Nos. 27, 125; Schoenberg: Dreimal tausend Jahre; Sweelinck: Huguenot Psalms. $5-$1. Wednesday, February...