Word: concerti
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Symphony points out much of what is good and bad in serious Victorian music. It is not and cannot be background music. There is so much sincere emotive material that it could never be left playing in the background like a string of Handel concerti grossi or even Bach trio sonatas. It demands closer attention. But the fruits of attention are often sparse (in contrast to the Bach trios!). Beautiful themes are exposed, but then lapse into less-than-profound filler. Huge crescendi too often come from and lead to nowhere. Basically, Victorian music could not cope with the olympian...
SANDERS THEATER. The Camerata of the Museum of Fine Arts. Baroque concerti for harpsichord and violin by Vivaldi, Bach and Haydn...
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS. Lecture Hall. Baroque concerti for harpsichord and violin by Vivaldi, Bach and Haydn...
Mozart: Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Sinfonia Concertante for Violin and Viola, K. 364, Symphony No. 32 (Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner conductor; Argo, $5.95). Whether accompanying French-horn players (see above) or reinterpreting the Baroque repertory (the Bach orchestral Suites, the Handel Concerti Grossi, Op. 6), Neville Marriner is one of the best and busiest maestros on the London recording scene. His Mozart, an artful shading of sinew, sensuousness and sonority, is as good as anything he does. Indeed, Nachtmusik is the freshest, rosiest reading of that serenade to come along in years...