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Soprano Sutherland and her husband, Conductor Richard Bonynge, share a fondness for unearthing faded or seldom-heard operas. Sutherland made her U.S. debut in Dallas in 1960 in Handel's all-but-forgotten opera Alcina. She and her husband are also responsible for the revival of Rossini's Semiramide, which had not been staged in the U.S. for 59 years when the couple brought it to Boston in 1965. For the sake of his principals, Bonynge embellished the score of Orfeo with newly composed "decorations for the soprano and tenor, which are part of the tradition of Haydn...
Charles Ives--Yale man, insurance salesman, transcendentalist, composer--surely one of the most unusual figures in the history of music. Danbury Conn. was his musical matrix. In the solid German academic tradition, he was steeped in Handel, Bach, and Beethoven, as well as in the Puritan and Victorian hymns, minstrel tunes, and "sentimental drawing-room ballads" of late nineteenth-century America. Yet Ives was a composer far ahead of his time, employing radical devices such as polytonality, metrical modulation and tone clusters long before they appeared in the European musical spotlight...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). "An Easter Greeting: Selections from Handel's Messiah,'" performed by the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, featuring Soprano Phyllis Curtin, Contralto Maureen Forrester and Tenor Richard Lewis from the Red Rocks Amphitheater near Denver...
...HANDEL THE MESSIAH (3 LPs). Handel himself scored several versions of his oratorio, and they bear scant resemblance to the later interpretations inflated by choruses of thousands. Today's revived interest in baroque music has resulted in two new albums that aim at authenticity, each using a chorus of 40 or fewer and an orchestra of similar size. The soloists in both albums strive -with mixed success -to ornament their melodies in 18th century style. Robert Shaw (RCA Victor), conducting his own chorale and orchestra, shows how dramatic the scaled-down work can be; his version, with its furiously...
...patterned the oratorio on the styles of Bach and Handel," Levin says. "And I've tried to keep it patently baroque...