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...these are woven into a skillful pastiche. If hardly innovative, it is easy to listen to and, at key moments, appropriately bravura. Never mind such questions as why Egk chose the blues to evoke a Caribbean mood, instead of a music more indigenous to the West Indies. Music Director Igor Buketoff led a crisp, idiomatic performance that drew the most from Egk's acrobatic orchestral score and made the blues passages seem natural, less like interludes. As Jeanne, Newcomer Barbara Hendricks from Little Rock, Ark., displayed a ravishing lyric soprano voice. Karl Brock not only handled the rigorous tenor...
Then Kapitsa expressed a desire to go abroad. I could tell he wanted the press to raise a lot of hoopla about his traveling to other countries. We deliberated the matter in the leadership. Even though we had let [Atomic Physicist Igor] Kurchatov go to England [in 1956], we decided to wait a while before sending Kapitsa abroad. We still hadn't accumulated enough atomic weapons. Therefore it was essential that we keep secret from our enemies any and all information which might tip them off about how little...
BACH: GOLDBERG VARIATIONS; VARIATIONS IN THE ITALIAN STYLE (Angel, 2 LPs). Baroque classics brought entertainingly to life by Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis...
Bach: Goldberg Variations; Variations in the Italian Style, Harpsichordist Igor Kipnis (Angel; 2 LPs; $11.98). The Art of Igor Kipnis, Vol. 2 (Columbia; 3 LPs; $9.98). Having surrendered America's finest harpsichordist to Angel two years ago, Columbia continues to reissue the superlative albums he originally taped for the now defunct Epic classical label. Included here are choice anthologies of English, German and Austrian music (late 16th century to the 18th) for clavichord as well as harpsichord. Meanwhile, Kipnis, 43-year-old son of the great Russian basso Alexander, moves on. His Goldbergs boast boldly colored registrations, an entertaining...
...SOLDIER'S TALE, by Igor Stravinsky, and THE COUNTRY DOCTOR, by Hans Werner Henze. This is the second outing this week for Stravinsky's allegory, which Eliot House put on Sunday, but it bears repetition. It's the second American performance of the Henze, which for all I know bears repetition too. Tomorrow and Sunday, 8:30 in the Quincy House Dining Hall...