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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...
...Midsummer Music Festival, but New Yorkers have seldom been offered music of such sustained seriousness even in the dead of winter. The programs ranged from La Clemenza di Tito (The Mercy of Titus), a rarely performed opera composed in the last year of Mozart's life, to concerti grossi by Handel, Vivaldi and Samuel Barber, to Bach's B Minor Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Skep tics said tickets would go begging. In stead, knowledgeable audiences have kept Philharmonic Hall practically full. The programs' appeal, says Festival Administrator Jay Hoffman...
Sunday's schedule: Vivaldi's Concerti for oboe and strings in D minor and F; Bach's Trio sonata (no. 7) and Canon perpetuum (no. 8) from The Musical Offering; Mozart's Concerto no. 5 in A. K.219; and Beethoven's Symphony no. 7 in A, opus...
...Kirkland St. and Divinity Ave., announces a series of record music concerts in its garden, 1-2 p.m., Monday through Friday. Each Wednesday, musical compositions related to art will be heard. This week: Bartok, Quartet no. 3-4; Beethoven, Septet; Mozart, Piano concertos no. 19 and 23; Handel, six concerti grossi; and Mozart, Divertimento no. 3. Next week: Clementi, Piano sonatas; Bartok Two Portraits for Orchestra and Deux Images (Wednesday); Beethoven, Quartets no. 1-2; and Brahms, Concerto for Violin and Orchestra...