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Paine Hall seemed a little more acoustically frigid than usual Wednesday night when Noel Lee '46 began his recital. To his first two pieces, Froberger's Suite in D Major and Frescobaldi's Five Italian Dances, the pianist failed to bring the warmth which has made his playing of Thoroughbass music distinctive and successful. And, on this occasion that warmth was particularly missed, since unfortunately what the performance lacked in feeling was not compensated for by the pieces themselves...
Boston Symphony Esplanade Concert (Tues. 8:30 p.m., ABC). The Frescobaldi-Kindler Toccata, Wagner's Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, Liszt's Concerto in E-Flat, Delibes' Procession of Bacchus from Sylvia. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler...
...glad to hear that there is still someone floating around who has the taste to transcribe early music and not emerge with something different from the original. Dr. Hans Kindler, conductor of the National Symphony Orchestra of Washington, D. C., has made a firstrate transcription of a Frescobaldi toccata (Victor Record 4537), and he plays this mettlesome music with verve, but without the nervous mannerisms Stokowski puts in Bach--and that is something to get mildly excited about...
...modern ears, unusual. Finishing off with the boisterous drunkards' chorus from Moussorgsky's "Kovantschina," and the sparkling finale of the "Gondoliers," the program leaves the listener, relaxed on the grass, in a peasant frame of mind--or more so, than would Rossini's Petite Messe Solonelle, a Frescobaldi motet, or the Mahler "Resurrection" Symphony...
...works the musicians hope to read include: Cesar Franck's D-Minor Symphony, Haydn's Surprise Symphony, Brahm's Second Symphony, Mozart's Overture to The Magic Flute and his Serenade in D, a Frescobaldi Fugue in G-Minor arranged by Mr. Holmes, and Bach's prelude and Fugue in B Flat Minor from the Well-Tempered Clavichord, arranged by R. U. Jameson '30, a former Pierian Manager...