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This musical spoof sounds almost like Bach. The themes, of course, are pure McCartney-Lennon, but they are treated in authentic baroque style by some excellent classical musicians who call themselves the Baroque Ensemble of the Merseyside Kammermusikgesellschaft. Selections include a suite, The Royale Beatleworks Musicke, and a Cantata for the Third Saturday after Shea Stadium...
...stumbled on P.D.Q., whose existence was known only "from police records and tavern lOUs," while touring a Bavarian castle in 1953. To his amazement, he says, he found the care taker using a piece of manuscript as a strainer for his percolator. It turned out to be the Sanka cantata...
Other unearthed P.D.Q. favorites, including the cantata Iphigenia in Brooklyn, have since been collected on a Vanguard recording. Perhaps the most touching compliment Schickele received was from a lady who rushed up to him after one concert, shook his hand warmly and gushed: "Oh, professor, it was awful, just awful!" "Thank you," said Schickele, "thank...
...occasion was the world premiere last week of Gershwiniana, a $100,000 "ballet-cantata" based on George Gershwin's music and billed as "a great moment in Italo-American collaboration." After opening night, the bemused Milanese had another name for it: "La Scala Follies." The critics had some complaints, some major (Director Maner Lualdi's failure to stitch the kaleidoscopic scenes into a visual and dramatic whole), and some minor ("How can one stage a 1910 New Orleans dance palace without calling in a single colored face...
Schoenberg wrote this gargantuan cantata before he made his break with tonality, but he deploys the oversized orchestra and chorus in daring polyphonic passages that alternate with romantic solos, sung beautifully in this recording by Soprano Inge Borkh and Tenor Herbert Schachtschnei-der. The Bavarian Radio Orchestra is con ducted by Rafael Kubelik...