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Other featured compositions are Bach's Cantata 192, Nun Danket Alle Gott; Marc Antoine Charpentiers' Messe de Minuit; and several traditional French Christmas carols...
...Bach Society Orchestra played its first concert of the year with verve and discretion, though the fare offered was surprisingly light. Perhaps the orchestra's conductor, John Harbison, is thinking of the taxing problems he will face in preparing a Bach cantata for the next program. At any rate, the Haydn symphony (No. 8) performed on Sunday was charming, if slight, and an interesting example of a classical piece with baroque devices still hanging on. No. 8 is part symphony, part concerto grosso, employing a harpsichord and three solo strings; the solo'cello was played with particular suavity and grace...
Bach: Arias (The Bach Aria Group, conducted by William Scheide; Decca). One of the nation's finest chamber groups, including Soprano Eileen Farrell and Tenor Jan Peerce, offers masterful performances of some little-known arias and duets from the Bach cantatas. At least two of them-Gott versorget alles Leben from Cantata 187 and Wenn kommt der Tag from Cantata 70-deserve a place on any Bach shelf...
...University Choir will sing the little-known festival cantata, Jubilate Agno, by Benjamin Britten, in a recital on Nov. 8. Memorial Church will be the scene of the Sunday evening performance...
...addition to this Britten cantata, which is performed only rarely, the choir will sing Organ Magnificat, by Samuel Sheibt. Both numbers on the program will be conducted by John R. Ferris, University Organist and Choir-master...