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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...
Excepts from Haydn's Pieces for Musical Clock came as a refreshing surprise. Originally written for a glorified music box, these bits of whimsy sound excellent can the organ. I especially enjoyed the mock heroism of the march, and the naive little fugue which concluded the group...
...play whatever music pleased her. But "a stern, dry man" took his place, and "my delightful roamings through the gavottes and bourrées of Bach were at an end." She was very unhappy. "I dream only one thing, when I am grown to play only Bach, Haydn and Mozart." She sealed this vow in an envelope, to be opened "when I am a big girl. But I opened it the next day, of course...
Casds Festival at Perpignan, Vol. I (Perpignan Festival Orchestra conducted by Pablo Casals; Columbia, 4 LPs). The great cellist is heard here as a Mozart conductor (he plays a Haydn cello Adagio on a personally inscribed fifth disk for purchasers of the complete album), shows that it is still possible to make such old veterans as Eine kleine Nachtmusik sound daisy-fresh. The orchestra is the fervent group that gathered around the Master in 1951; soloists include Violinist Erica Morini, Oboist Marcel Tabuteau...
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto (Louis Cahuzac; the Danish State Radio Orchestra conducted by Mogens Woldike; Haydn Society). A straight-from-the-shoulder performance of Mozart's last major instrumental work. It has one striking advantage over other versions: the clarinet tone has a rich, woody quality that is usually smoothed over by U.S. soloists...