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Despite an historically inaccurate interpretation by Charles Munch, Bach's St. Matthew Passion received a generally good performance yesterday from the Boston Symphony Orchestra, five soloists, the Harvard Glee Club, and the Radcliffe Choral Society. In most places not up to the exacting standards set by Hermann Scherchen on Westminster records, Mr. Munch's rendition was marred seriously by his treatment of Bach as Verdi, and by the unfortunate deletion of many beautiful arias and chorales. He also cut parts of reciatatives, which are essential to the full meaning of the story of the Passion and of the work...
...Munch cut, among other numbers, the recitatives describing the suicide of Judas and the love of Mary Magdalene, the lovely bass aria "Mache dich, mein Herze, rein," and the masterful tenor aria "Geduld, geduld...
Blackwood's composition, performed by Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony, was grave, withdrawn, and emotionally muted to a kind of rasping, wearied monotone. It nevertheless revealed Blackwood as a skilled technician and a stoutly original musical thinker. The winner of a recording project prize last season, the symphony will be released commercially by RCA Victor...
United Nations Day Concert (CBS, 11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.). In a taped recording of a U.N. Day ceremony held two days earlier, Charles Munch conducts the Boston Symphony in Honegger's Fifth Symphony; legendary Cellist Pablo Casals joins Mieczyslaw Horszowski in Bach's Sonata No. 2 in D Major for Cello and Piano...
Members of the tour will also be invited to attend a chamber music concert Sunday morning at 10 a.m., given by the student Berkshire Music Orchestra. That afternoon, Munch will conduct the BSO in a concert of Bartok (Music for Strings, Percussion, and Celesta), Ravel (second suite from "Daphnis and Chloe") and Tschaikovsky (the Violin Concerto), with violin solo by Zino Francescatti...