Word: harpsichords
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...Victor); Debussy Piano Music, played by Robert Casadesus, sometimes assisted by his wife Gaby (Columbia, 3 LPs); 50 Years of Great Operatic Singing (Victor, 5 LPs) ; The Saint of Bleecker Street, with the original cast, including David Poleri and Gloria Lane, conducted by Thomas Schippers (Victor, 2 LPs); 60 Harpsichord Sonatas by Domenico Scarlatti, played by Ralph Kirkpatrick; Columbia...
...program opened with Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, in which Cynthia Crain, Annette Colish and Kenneth McIntosh all played with assurance the solo parts for flute, violin and keyboard, respectively (a piano was used for the original harpsichord). Though technically a concerto grosso, this work is in a sense the first real solo concerto for keyboard, owing to the general prominence and the extended cadenza allotted to it. McIntosh's runs were as even as pearls, and he exerted admirable dynamic restraint throughout (his versatility even extended to playing the horn in the other works). The initial orchestral tempo...
...Cambridge Society for Early Music devoted all three of its concerts this fall to works by Johann Scbastian Bach. In the second concert, Ruth Posselt was the featured soloist in three of the rarely performed Sonatas for violin with harpsichord and continue. I admired especially the rhythmic vitality and sharpness of articulation which she brought to these works. Her dramatic vibrato, however, seemed out of place in the stately declamation of the E major Adagio, while the following Allegro sounded overly stiff, and other occasional nuances of mood were only slightly indicated. Yet within her conception, the performance was minutely...
Thurston Dart, a fellow of Jesus College, Cambridge, will give a free harpsichord recital on Dec. 10 at 8:30 p.m. in Fogg Court...
Plymouth-born Composer Bate, 40, waited long for last week's success. He wrote his symphony 14 years ago. A top-speed composer, he has written concertos for violin, viola, harpsichord and four for piano, seven ballets, two quartets and lots of other chamber music. A student of Vaughan Williams, he has studied and worked in Paris, New York (on a Guggenheim fellowship) and Australia. Bate, currently working on an opera, has heard little of his orchestral music performed. After hearing the Cheltenham performance he feels encouraged. "I liked hearing that one so much," he says, "I think...