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...Bach Society Orchestra's programming of two of the Opus 6 concerto grossi was a welcome step into the edifice of Handel's creations. The set of twelve concertos comprise the finest English instrumental music written until this century. There can be no doubt that Handel, although born in Saxony and raised on Italian opera, is a thoroughly English composer. He arrived in London during the interregnum left by the death of Purcell in 1695 and the first works of Thomas Arne twenty years later. By 1710 Handel had subsumed into his Italianate idiom the brilliant scoring, deep love...
...BACH SOCIETY had considerable difficulties with the first of the concerto grossi, which was hampered by dynamic monotony, struggling second violins, inaudible violas, and a methodical trio of soloists. All of these problems unhappily converged in the second and fifth movements. Miss Lisa Sandow, the first solo violin, and Miss Ruth Rubinow, the solo cello, rivalled each other for tonal monotony and absolute abandonment of nuance. Miss Janet Packer, the second solo violin apparently sensed this lackluster playing and performed with considerable artistic concern. The second concerto, distinguished by a beautiful first movement, fared much better with Tison Street...
FRANCESCO GEMINIANI: CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 7 (World Series). For the baroque buff who wants to be a bit more recherche than, say, a Telemann fan, Geminiani might offer just the right gambit. Elegant and more expressive than many of his contemporaries, he is given a good hearing by that satin-stringed Italian chamber group called simply I Musici...
HANDEL: THE TWELVE CONCERTI GROSSI, OPUS 6 (4 LPs; Angel). Using the same basic means- two violins and a cello set against a small orchestra- Handel achieved widely different moods. Yehudi Menuhin plays one of the violins in the trio and conducts the Bath Festival Orchestra with the same scholarly fidelity and high musical spirits that he displayed in his recent recording of the Water Music...
...Midsummer Music Festival, but New Yorkers have seldom been offered music of such sustained seriousness even in the dead of winter. The programs ranged from La Clemenza di Tito (The Mercy of Titus), a rarely performed opera composed in the last year of Mozart's life, to concerti grossi by Handel, Vivaldi and Samuel Barber, to Bach's B Minor Mass and Stravinsky's Symphony of Psalms. Skep tics said tickets would go begging. In stead, knowledgeable audiences have kept Philharmonic Hall practically full. The programs' appeal, says Festival Administrator Jay Hoffman...