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...Choral Society seemed beautifully trained, especially when they sang softly, but their interpretation of early music, such as Dufay's Magnificat in the Eighth Mode, was overly romantic. They were better in interesting contemporary pieces by Martinu and Harris. Elizabeth Kalkhurst was the fine soprano soloist...
...Woodworth's views. Largely because of poor diction and breathy tone, the Glee Club's sound was nearly always pale in upper voices and muddy in the bass. These failings actually enhanced the plain chant Te Lucis, but consistently spoiled the music of later composers. Even Charpentier's lovely Magnificat almost became an insipid bore--despite the excellence of violinists John Goodkind and John Barson, and Harvard cellist Stephen McGhee. After a mediocre Schubert cantata, the visitors offered a Bacchanals from Offenbach's La Belle Helene. At its close, Mr. Ludington did a little dance and several singers made Chevaliertype...
...composer who got a first New York performance of some of his music last week, Claudio Monteverdi goes a long way back. While he was composing his Vespers and Magnificat, Rome's St. Peter's Cathedral was still abuilding, Shakespeare was writing his Winter's Tale, Galileo was pondering the mysteries of the stars in their courses, Rembrandt and John Milton were toddling infants, and New York City-the year was 1610 -had not yet been thought...
Composer Monteverdi's Vespers and Magnificat, which includes ten of his 70-odd sacred works, begins with a stately blaring of trumpets and trombones, suddenly quiets to let a Latin choral pianissimo float sweetly through the air. In the movements that follow, Monteverdi sings the praises of God; sometimes, as in excerpts from the Song of Songs, with a distinctly earthy flavor; sometimes with a powerful, jagged emphasis; often, in the vocal solos and duets, with highly ornamental flights of fancy; always with a markedly modern feeling for the accents of individual words. The performance, by the 150-voice...
Other noteworthy new releases: Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach: Magnificat (Vienna State Opera Orchestra) ; Akademie Choir and soloists conducted by Felix Prohaska; Bach Guild, 2 LPs); Conrad Beck: Viola Concerto (Walter Kagi; L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande conducted by Jean Meylan; London); Beethoven: "Kreutzer" Sonata (Jascha Heifetz, violin; Benno Moïséiwitsch, piano; Victor...