Word: grossi
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi (Busch Chamber Players, Adolf Busch conducting; Columbia, 49 sides, 3 volumes). In presenting all of Handel's great monuments of improvisation for the first time in the U.S., Columbia does not match its laudable ambition with sound achievement. The performance is generally good, though uneven; the recording is not all it should...
...Brother Adolf Busch, violinist (citizen of Switzerland), led his Little Symphony through four of Handel's Concerti Grossi at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. In his orchestra: wife Frieda (clarinet), daughter Irene (violin), brother Hermann, onetime first cellist of the Vienna Philharmonic (cello...