Word: flautist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...word is due the special care spent on the printed program. The cover appropriately reproduced a lovely painting of a Renaissance singer, flautist and lutanist (which might have been identified as being by an anonymous French master c.1525 and now in the Harrach Gallery in Vienna). The composers dates were supplied; and on the back was a full dated list of the original sources for all the pieces (though Rameau's work was published...
Another feature of the concert was the performance of two Baroque flute sonatas with the accompaniment of a harpsichord, played nicely by Sy Hayden. Flautist Eric Herz overcame some nervousness at the beginning of a sonata by Loeillet and went on to play Bach's Sonata in G minor with assurance. The work is a typical Italian trio-sonata structure enriched by Bach's genius...
Cynthia Sweeney, soprano, and Howard Brown, flautist, in Bach's celebrated "Coffee cantata," and the latter in Vivaldi's Concerto for flute and string orchestra were probably the best soloists, although all were good...