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Until 18 months ago, bright-eyed Pierino Gamba seemed like an ordinary Roman boy of eight who had taken a few piano lessons. He hated to wash and he liked to play with his electric train. Then his father, a baker, decided that Pierino should become a conductor...
Descending into the realm of will-they-last child prodigies, the sensation of the season, not only from a musical point of view, was the conducting of 9-year-old Pierrino Gamba, still clad in short pants. After a tour of his native Italy, he made brief appearances in Lagano and Zurich before going to France. He concentrates on a young man's program (Schubert 8th, Beethoven 1st) and although I had no chance to see or hear him, I was very reliably informed that he conducted it very well...
Five kinds of violins unfamiliar to most concert-goers were heard at the Sanders Theatre Concert on Sunday with the Boston Society playing compositions ranging from 16th Century dances to Handel on a descant violin, a treble violin, a viola da gamba, and a violone. All of these look very similar to modern instruments except the viola da gamba ("Viol of the leg") which is a small 'cello resting on the knee...
Music form a harpsichord, viola da gamba, and recorder flute will fill the Germanic Museum on Thursday evening when the Cologne Chamber Music Trio is scheduled to play...
Bach: Sonata No. 1 in G Major (Ernst Victor Wolff, harpsichord, and Janos Scholz, viola da gamba; Columbia: 4 sides). Often played on the piano and cello, this sonata has rarely been heard on the instruments for which Bach wrote it. Harpsichordist Wolff and Violinist Scholz are persuasive and authentic...