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Harpsichord Recital" (Ralph Kirkpatrick; Musicraft: 12 sides). U. S. Harpsichordist Kirkpatrick, an authority on 17th and 18th Century composers, plays a representative anthology, including Bach's Chromatic Fantasy and Fugue, two Scarlatti sonatas, two Purcell suites...
Brahms: Sonata in F Minor for Clarinet and Piano (David Weber and Ray Lev; Musicraft: 6 sides). Composer Brahms's two sonatas for clarinet and piano belong to his last, maturest period. Though recorded in an arrangement for viola, the F Minor sonata has waited till now for its first waxing in original form. The sonata is beautiful, the performance adequate...
Schubert: Sonata in G Major, Op. 78 (Kurt Appelbaum, pianist; Musicraft: 8 sides). Remarkable example of fine piano-tone reproduction. German Pianist Appelbaum plays his Schubert sensitively...
Buxtehude: Missa Brevis, and Johann Hermann Schein: Motet "Die Mit Tranen Säen" (Motet Singers, Paul Boepple conducting; Musicraft: 4 sides). In 1700, grand old man of European music was a Swedish composer and organist named Dietrich Buxtehude. His quaint, archaic Missa Brevis is as deft and complicated as a Renaissance tapestry. Composer Schein's motet, added for good measure, was written about half a century earlier...
Mozart: Mass in F Major, K. 192 (The Motet Singers with String Orchestra, Paul Boepple conducting; Musicraft: 6 sides). Far less known than his symphonies and operas are Composer Mozart's 15 Masses, none of which has up to now been completely recorded. The Mass in F Major is early Mozart, but meaty...