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Harvard Department of Music Colloquium.Lydia Goehr, Wesleyan University. Davison Room,Music Building, 4:15 p.m.28 February Tuesday
Monteverdi: The Coronation of Poppea (Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, chorus and soloists conducted by Walter Goehr; Concert Hall, 3 LPs). Monteverdi's last opera (1642) and his most affecting score, rich in musical compassion and credible characterization. The story, which might have trouble with contemporary film censors, tells how Poppea, Nero's mistress, ousts the rightful empress and triumphantly takes her place on the Roman throne. The recording is notable for some superb singing by Soprano Sylvia Gähwiller and Contralto Maria Helbling in a fine cast...
Stravinsky: Concerto for Piano and Wind Orchestra (Mewton-Wood, piano; members of The Hague's Residentie Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Concert Hall). An incisive performance of one of Stravinsky's most inventive and amusing works (1924). Appealing and even warm in its stylishly static...
Mozart: Concerto No. 18, K.456 (Lili Kraus, pianist; with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Walter Goehr conducting; Decca-Parlophone, 2 sides LP). This is one of Mozart's finest concertos, and Pianist Kraus plays it strongly and forthrightly. Completing the second side, with Violinist Szymon Goldberg, she plays the unfinished Sonata K.404. Performance and recording: good...
Bizet: Symphony No. 1 In C Major (London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Walter Goehr; Victor; 7 sides; $4.50). A crisp, tuneful work by a then 17-year-old composer, with a hint of his later Carmen. It got its first U. S. performance only last October, here gets its first recording...