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...Moody Blues, pioneers in the field, have sold more than 10 million records over the past six years; ELP and Yes, the most progressive of all such groups, each has between 8 and 10 million sales to its credit; the album of Wakeman's dramatic cantata Journey to the Centre of the Earth became a million-dollar seller in only six weeks...
Jack Gwillim is a fine Clown when carousing with the others in the comical caterwauling cantata at midnight; but, later, he simply does not have a good enough singing voice to do justice to "Come away, death" and the concluding curtain song (which would also benefit from better synchronization between singer and backstage orchestra). This is no small point, for Shakespeare wrote the heavily musical role especially for Robert Arnim, a new company acquisition who happened to be a superb singer...
...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...