Word: harpsichords
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August Wenzinger, Horatio Appleton Lamb Lecturer on Music this year, will perform on the viola da gamba. Mrs. Anne Gombosi, former member of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis will accompany him on her violin, and Mclville Smith, director of the Longy School of Music, will play the harpsichord...
...continue, one by the 17th century English composer John Jenkins and the other by Francois Couperin. The pleasing, simply-constructed movements of the Jenkins were given a graceful rendition by Anne Gombosi, violin; August Wenzinger, a visiting lecturer from Switzerland; Stephen McGhee, viola da gamba and John Dvison, harpsichord. But the Couperin is quite a notch above the Jenkins musically, and Mr. Wenzinger's virtuoso performance further augmented the excellent impression it made. Because of the elaborate ornamental conventions of the period in which it was written, a great part of the work's charm lies in seeing its technical...
...song for a singer, he calls in the musical arranger, looking for the best way to lift the tune out of the humdrum category. The first objectives: a "new" sound effect-e.g., reverberating echoes or the use of such unlikely instruments as braying French horns or a jangling harpsichord-and an insistent rhythm. To top off the arrangement, Miller asks for a full, rich sound. Sometimes this can be had by a clever distribution of instruments, sometimes it calls for a big orchestra and a massed chorus...
Having explored Beethoven pretty thoroughly (TIME, Jan. 12), record companies are turning back to Bach. The biggest new excursion into his music comes from the Haydn Society, which has recorded the complete Clavier Übung on seven excellent LPs, with Ralph Kirkpatrick playing the harpsichord and Paul Callaway the organ. The title means "Keyboard Practice," but, far from being a series of exercises, the music was designed by Bach for "spiritual enjoyment...
...market, although it ducks the real test: the usual high-trilling trumpet is replaced by ancient recorders. Three famous old names are on other new Bach releases: Pablo Casals, in reissues of the unaccompanied Cello Suites Nos. 2 & 3, Wanda Landowska playing the fifth in her harpsichord version of the complete Well-Tempered Clavier (both Victor), and Albert Schweit er (Columbia), in massive, square-hewn readings from the master's organ works Other new records...