Word: concerti
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reality, bears only traces of it. To be sure, on Spring Weekend, Finley's boys play at cricket and bowls in the courtyard, and the excellent House Chamber Music Society performs woodwind and trumpet concerti on the lawn. Apart from Finley, however, the House seems tame and ordinary. There is no literary magazine, drama review, seminar program, serious artistic production--not even a psychedelic light show-dance happening. Instead, the House Committee sponsors a movie series which includes such favorites as Bad Day at Black Rock and The Americanization of Emily. Even the number of preppies has been vastly exaggerated...
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI: CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 7 (World Series). For the baroque buff who wants to be a bit more recherche than, say, a Telemann fan, Geminiani might offer just the right gambit. Elegant and more expressive than many of his contemporaries, he is given a good hearing by that satin-stringed Italian chamber group called simply I Musici...
...pointedly identified as the mother of his children, lest there be some mistake-has been participating in the local arts festival rather more enthusiastically than anyone planned. Her pet project is a famous Italian composer-pianist (Rossano Brazzi). The two look at one another, and the sound track booms concerti. On a chain around her neck Maureen wears the gold medal Brazzi won at the festival, a clue that her course in music appreciation has advanced beyond the hand-holding stage...
Finally, Ursula Oppens came and played Beethoven. She played him as he should be played, with the overall lightness that this last of the rococo concerti deserves (for although numbered the First, this is actually the second of Beethoven's piano concerti, and in the last three he had completely transcended the form as Mozart had left it), yet did not slight the brooding moments foretelling what dark depths would be revealed in the composer's later music. In other words, she achieved the difficult synthesis of rococo and romantic that is Beethoven's music...
HANDEL: THE TWELVE CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 6 (4 LPs; Angel). Using the same basic means- two violins and a cello set against a small orchestra- Handel achieved widely different moods. Yehudi Menuhin plays one of the violins in the trio and conducts the Bath Festival Orchestra with the same scholarly fidelity and high musical spirits that he displayed in his recent recording of the Water Music...