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Album of Early Cantatas and Songs (Isabel French, soprano, and Hugues Cuenod, tenor; Technichord:*10 sides). When 18th-Century Parisian Jean Philippe Rameau took time off from writing the first modern treatise on the art of composition, he composed deft, archaic, but charmingly tuneful music. His cantata L' Impatience, along with songs and cantatas by Monteverdi, Schütz and Thomas Arne, gives French Tenor Hugues Cuenod a chance for some fancy, old-style tenor...
...removed from the ordinary course of life by his inspiration and genius to the conception of an artist as an excellent workman--one who intends his product for use in every-day life. It is an ideal very close to that of Bach who wrote his cantata and his chorale prelude for the next Sunday because that was his job, and, as a good workman, he did his job as best he could in whatever situation he found himself. Of course, one cannot discount the sparkle of ingenuity and inspiration which makes the difference between mere technical exercise and great...
Each group sang three numbers, and the combined chorus sang three more. Of especial interest was the rarely heard Mozart canon, "Bed Is Cozy" performed by the small chorus of the Leverett Glee Club, and the first American performance of the cantata "In Windsor Forest" taken from the opera "Sir John in Love" by Vaughn Williams. This was sung by the combined voices...
...Cantata Feature...
...feature of the concert will be the performance of Vaughn Williams' cantata "In Windsor Forest," taken from the opera "Sir John in Love." This will be the first time that this cantata has ever been sung in America...