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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BACH: THE WELL-TEMPERED CLAVIER, PART 1 (2 LPs; Archiv). "Clavier" means keyboard, and no one knows whether these preludes and fugues were written for harpsichord, organ or clavichord. Ralph Kirkpatrick is recording them on the clavichord, preferring its subtlety. Infinitely varied within their small compass, like snowflakes, the pieces have a severe fascination when played on the soft, monochromatic instrument. The late Wanda Landowska chose the harpsichord as her clavier, and her performances (RCA Victor) will be preferred by listeners who demand greater contrast and majesty...
...GOLDEN AGE OF THE ORGAN (2 LPs; Columbia). E. Power Biggs goes on a busman's holiday in Germany and Holland, playing with artistry the twelve surviving baroque organs of Master Builder Arp Schnitger (1648-1719). The tones of Schnitger's organs are exceptionally bright and buoyant, wrong for the romantics but wonderful for the music Biggs plays: Bach (including the Dorian Toccata and Fugue in D Minor) and chorale preludes by the modern Berlin composer Ernst Pepping...
...Monday, August 3, the Summer School will present The Garner String Quartet in a concert at Sanders Theatre at 8:30 p.m. John Ferris, University Organist and Choirmaster, will give recitals on the Flentrop Organ of the Busch-Reisinger Museum on Tuesday and Wednesday at 8:30 p.m. All performances are open to the public without charge...
...Ferris's recital will feature Suite du Premier Ton by Louis-Nicholas Clerambault, Sonata 1 by Paul Hindemith, Prelude and Fugue in A Minor by J.S. Bach, Sonata 111, Opus 65 by Mendelssohn, and Concertante for Organ Celests, and Percussion (1963), by Daniel Pinkham. The final number will be conducted by the composer...
Fire Buff. Descendant of a long line of fiddling Fiedlers (his father and two uncles were violinists with the B.S.O.), Arthur studied at Berlin's Royal Academy of Music, joined the Boston Symphony in 1915 and played musical chairs (violin, viola, celesta, piano, organ and percussions) before he founded the open-air Esplanade Concerts in 1929 and began luring up to 20,000 persons across the Arthur Fiedler Bridge to the banks of the Charles River for free concerts. In 1930 he became the first Boston-bred conductor of the Pops...