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BRITTEN: CANTATA MISERICORDIUM (London). Written for the 1963 centenary of the founding of the Red Cross, the cantata retells, in Latin, the parable of the good Samaritan. Shorter and less dramatic than Britten's widely performed War Requiem, it is nevertheless eloquent as performed by the London Symphony orchestra...
Time is the most important factor. It is to the length of one man's life, and the rapidity of his action, that the continuity of Spain's economic, social and political advancement is tied. True democracy in the Western sense may not be on the horizon, for...
BACH: THE ST. MATTHEW PASSION (London). Karl Miinchinger and the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra give the masterpiece an interpretation that is lovingly faithful to Bach's design. It has an appropriately reverent quality rather than the overwhelming emotional thrust of massed voices that most often dominate baroque oratorios. Among the...
PETER PEARS AND JULIAN BREAM: MUSIC FOR THE GUITAR (RCA Victor). Though the singers and the composers (Britten, Walton) are 20th century, this disk takes the listener right into an 18th century salon. Pears's technique is faultless, his singing elegant.
Sir: My husband is a marine, and he served his 15 months in Okinawa without his family (the tour of duty has since been shortened). I'm sure that I am just as devoted to him as Mrs. Norma Reich ap pears to be to her husband, but a...