Word: mendelssohn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Albert Schweitzer, who almost single-handedly revived interest in Bach during the first decade of this century, happily list the few people who accepted and appreciated Bach's genius: Mendelssohn, Goethe, Schumann, Beethoven, Wanger, Liszt. Once the common opinion of only the greatest artists of the nineteenth century, that opinion is now generally accepted. Today we learn harmony from Bach's chorales and even Time Magazine has called him "The Fifth Apostle...
Royalties are coming in from both companies. In addition, Ormandy can now record material that was closed to him at Columbia, because Mahler belonged largely to Bernstein, and Mozart to Szell. To be released in the fall are Philadelphia versions of the Mahler First Symphony and Mendelssohn's Elijah. After that will come DeFalla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain with Rubinstein, Mahler's Second Symphony, Bach's St. Matthew Passion, and several contemporary works, including Krzystof Penderecki's Threnody for the Victims of Hiroshima...
...Felix Mendelssohn, then 20, conducted a Berlin performance of the St. Matthew Passion. Although severely cut and subjected to a much doctored orchestration, the music awoke the public to Bach. Thereafter, the 19th century treated him with a mixture of veneration and desecration. His choral works were frequently performed, but with muddy-sounding 1,000-voice choirs and thick, brass-bottomed orchestras. His original scores were collected over a period of 50 years for the definitive 60-volume Bach-Gesellschaft edition of his works, completed in 1900 (a new, even more complete edition is now under way). But they contained...
Though this was his New York debut, Maag's music making was already familiar to American audiences. He has conducted an impressive number of recordings-notably the Mozart Prague and the Mendelssohn Scotch-in the past 15 years. Save for a four-year stint as conductor of the Vienna Volksoper, Maag, 49, has been a freelancer in Europe's concert halls and opera houses for most of his musical life...
...James Richman's performance of the Mendelssohn Concerto in G Minor lacked the necessary technical expertise." On the contrary, this is what it had above all else. Mr. Richman also showed a fine intellectual understanding of the piece; all that I found lacking was a sensitivity to its musical content...