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...conductor the famous musician Jean-Baptiste Lully; the Lully of this show is Richard Wernick. Wernick has written a dry and witty score fully in keeping with the play; and he presides over a small live orchestra (all in period costume) of winds and percussion, and plinks on a harpsichord from time to time himself. (It would be ungratefully pedantic to complain about the anachronistic use of a clarinet, which in Moliere's day had not yet been invented...
...Bach's Sonata No. 2. He also kept his volume down so that the right hand of the piano, which is equal to the flute in trio sonata style, could be heard. In Bach's Second Violin Sonata Michael Day played with admirable musicianship; Bertram Baldwin accompanied at the harpsichord. Violinist David Hurwitz closed his part of the concert with a fine performance of Handel's Sonata in F. He played with restraint and a warm tone, and was ably assisted by Jonathan Thackeray, harpsichord, and Mary Davidoff, continuo...
Temporarily belying its name, the group never-theless chose a program of three masterpieces, all of which were fairly well known but by no means hackneyed. For the G-minor Concerto grosso from Corelli's Opus 6, Senturia used a well-balanced ensemble of seventeen string players plus harpsichord. The group played with guts and gusto, though never forcing the tone. The precision was admirable and the intonation astonishingly accurate. But why, Mr. Senturia, did you decide to omit the final flowing pastorale movement...
Rameau--Complete Harpsichord Music...
...curious duality of Rameau consists of the stern formalization of his harmony combined with his quaint and often humorous pictorialization. These two facets are much in evidence in this attractive album of his complete harpsichord music. Pieces such as "The Hens" or "The Joke" are marvelously descriptive but obey Rameau's strict harmonic rules which caused such a controversy in his day. Harpsichordist Robert Vernon-Lacroix gives a properly stylized rendition and the re-ording is precise. (Westminster...