Word: frescobaldiana
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swoboda wisely chose a first program that was very gratifying to his players, as well as to his listeners. Frescobaldiana revelled in bombast, the Hary Janos Suite, in special effects; and the familiarity of Schubert's "Unfinished" Symphony easily overcame any distractions which the excellence of the piece might have created. What they attempted, Swoboda and the HRO did with the greatest flair; what the audience now deserves is a program as musically ambitious as, say, last week's Bach Society concert. The forthcoming premiere of Frank Martin's choral work, in Sanders and in Carnegie Hall, indicates that Swoboda...
...come to the concert expecting to hear an anemic student orchestra, the first five minutes of the performance were petrifying. The sound of Giannini's Frescobaldiana, which received its New England premiere Friday, rolled out bigger, smoother, and more controlled than anything we could remember the HRO emitting before. Difficult transitions--full orchestra dropping away to unveil a quartet of woodwinds--passed in untroubled succession. Massive string sections--nine violas and eleven cellos--luxuriated in lush tone. A fine solo on the English horn by Barbara Cohen introduced the second movement. And Swoboda provided the histrionics on the podium that...
After a while it appeared that Frescobaldiana was a dull piece and had absolutely nothing to do with evoking. Baroque organ works. So everyone politely ignored that and honestly enjoyed listening to the orchestra cavort...
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