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Orff: Carmina Burana (Bavarian Radio Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Eugen Jochum; Decca). In 1937 German Composer Carl Orff turned 25 medieval minstrel poems into a cantata about wine, women and springtime. The style is reminiscent of early Stravinsky, with its thudding rhythms, large masses of sound and uncomplicated message...
Miss Vosgerschian will perform Bach's Concerto in A major for harpsichord and strings. Also on the program is Bach's cantata Berelt die Wege, Bereitet die Bahn...
...Confederacy - Dixie excepted-has fallen out of memory. From libraries, and with the help of friends, Bales resurrected some 125 old Southern songs, all piano versions. Weeding through them, he selected ten solidly representative tunes, orchestrated them for sighing fiddles and haunting horns, and strung them together in a cantata which he called The Confederacy. The première brought out the rebels of the Washington area in full force...
...hour-and-a-half performance was one more sign of revived interest in the man who stands at the fountainhead of modern musical style. In the past few seasons, Monteverdi's operas Orfeo and Coronation of Poppea and the scenic cantata Battle of Tancred and Clorinda have had concert performances in Manhattan, and record companies-whose search for new repertory material is partly responsible for the revival-have already put out 17 Monteverdi...
This combination cantata, symphony, and opera splits into three long movements. There are a few dull passages, but most of its 120 minutes brim over with intense emotion. After an orchestral introduction, a choral recitative marks out the plot, and the first movement ends with what seems to be a rather static version of the famous balcony scene. The second movement has the familiar "Queen Maud Scherzo" and the final section describes the death of the lovers, and the reconciliation of the warring houses...