Word: passacaglias
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Britten: Peter Grimes Excerpts (The Concertgebouw Orchestra, Eduard van Beinum conducting; Decca Record Co. Ltd., 6 sides). Amsterdam's orchestra, possibly Europe's best, puts salt and spray into the four sea interludes and passacaglia from Britten's opera (TIME, Feb. 16). Performance: excellent...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Vivaldi's Concerto for Violin and Strings in B Flat; Bach's Suite No. 3 in D Major and Passacaglia in C Minor; Handel's Concerto Grosso in D Minor. Conductor: Arturo Toscanini...
...York Philharmonic (Sun. 3 p.m., CBS). Bach's Ich Ruf zu Dir, Second Brandenburg Concerto, C Minor Passacaglia and Fugue, Come, Sweet Death; Wagner's love music from Tristan und Isolde. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski...
Boogie-woogie is a kind of blues piano playing in which the left hand drones a set bass phrase over & over, while the right hand goes to town with whatever variations the player can think up. Its form is identical with that of the classical passacaglia, a kind of dance music (of Spanish origin) that was old stuff to Bach's grandfather. Though boogie-woogie's mournful thump and clatter had long been heard in the humbler dives of New Orleans and Chicago, it was not taken up by the connoisseurs until 1938. In Manhattan the temple...
...same program Emma Boynet, French pianist who appeared with the Boston Symphony two years ago, will be the soloist in the Concerto of Mozart in C Major (Kochel 467). The concert will open with Haydn's Symphony in G major, No. 88, and close with Bach's Organ Passacaglia, as transcribed for orchestra by Ottorino Respighi...