Word: haydn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...even the caterers will care. Weddings still have the traditional trimmings, including white lace and tears, but many couples now insist on writing their own wedding service or at least varying the hallowed music; the customary wedding marches have begun to give way to Handel's Water Music, Haydn's St. Anthony Chorale, or even Spanish guitar tunes...
BOCCHERINI: SYMPHONY IN C MINOR (London). The great composers of the classical age, Mozart and Haydn, have overshadowed their contemporary, Luigi Boccherini, who also wrote prolificacy-more than 400 instrumental works. "Boccherini is Haydn's wife," jested a violinist of the day, referring to the Italian's gentle, melting melodies, including gilded minuets that are whispering echoes of an elegant past. There is just such a dance in this bland but pretty symphony played by the Orchestra Rossini di Napoli, conducted by Franco Caracciolo...
ROSSINI: MOSÈ (3 LPs; Philips). Made in 1956 but issued for the first time in the U.S., this is the opera's only recording. Mosè is closer in spirit to the oratorios of Handel and Haydn than to Rossini's own sparkling Barber of Seville, though a few light lovely Italian airs occasionally creep into the repertoire of the Egyptians. Basso Nicola Rossi Lemeni, as Moses, sounds too muffled and unfocused to convince anyone to follow him into the Red Sea, but the orchestra and chorus of the Teatro di San Carlo di Napoli play...
...HAYDN: THE CREATION (2 LPs; Decca). One of the last great works of the skeptical 18th century was this triumphant affirmation of Haydn's faith. Translated from the German and sung clearly in English, the oratorio will seem especially vivid to U.S. listeners because the music so closely fits the words. One hears the tawny lion roar, the insects swarm and the tiger leap for the first time on earth. Frederic Waldman conducts the Musica Aeterna Orchestra and Chorus, and Soprano Judith Raskin, as Gabriel, sings brilliantly, at times eclipsing her more earthbound fellow archangels, Tenor John McCollum...
...nation's symphony orchestras increased their average number of concerts by 12%. The most performed composers: Beethoven, Mozart, Tchaikovsky, Brahms, Wagner; the most performed works: Bach's Choral Prelude, Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite No. 2, Haydn's Symphony...