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CAMBRIDGE CIRCUS. A rock-'n'-roll number, I Wanna Hold Your Handel, spoofing the composer and the Beatles, is one of the highlights of this revue imported from the campus on the Cam. The fun flows as seven manic but unassuming Britons set out to tickle a rib rather than wash a brain...
...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...
...Antony delivering Caesar's funeral oration while struggling frantically to hold onto the unwieldy corpse is funnier in promise than performance. On the other hand, when the cast dons wigs and choirboys' surplices for a spastic rock-'n'-roll number called "I Wanna Hold Your Handel," they memorably spoof both the composer and the Beatles, with a blasting hallelujah! yeah! yeah! The evening ends in a British courtroom with a bewigged theater-of-the-absurd farce-trial involving a dwarf that is hilarious enough all by itself to make the show Broadway's Circus Maximus...
HAYDN: MASS IN TIME OF WAR (Deutsche Grammophon). This is the first of Haydn's six last Masses, those great, sturdy monuments of faith that look backward musically to Handel and forward to Beethoven. Rafael Kubelik and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chorus perform the superb work so deliberately that it seems staid at first but builds slowly to an impressive climax in the Agnus Dei, with its insistent rolls of drums that give the work its popular title, the Paukenmesse or Drum Mass...
...London hall last week a group of angry investors bitterly chanted Handel's "Dead March" from Saul, and an accountant rose to read solemnly from a 75-page report. It was the Doomsday Book of Rolls Razor Ltd., the base of John Bloom's washing-machine empire -and it contained some shockers. Britons knew that Bloom had fallen badly, but no one had guessed quite how badly. Citing examples of incredibly slovenly bookkeeping, the report revealed that Rolls Razor, whose assets in bankruptcy are only $2,100,000, is in the hole to creditors for $11 million...