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...REVIEW of this weekend's music would be complete without a mention of the Boston Philharmonia's Sunday night concert. Under-publicized, under-attended, and at a ridiculously early hour, the Philharmonia with Leon Fleisher turned out a fine orchestral performance, one of the best I've heard this season. The program ranged from Haydn to Schnabel, and was uniformly well played...
...Philharmonia is a co-operative orchestra, dedicated to performing music outside of the mainstream of the orchestral repertoire. To this end, they put together programs of little known works by great composers, and pieces by more obscure authors. Their program Sunday included Stravinsky's Eight Instrumental Miniatures for Fifteen Players, a series of marvelously pleasant little mood pieces, each a short, refreshing musical exercise with a peculiar beauty; Davies's Antechrist, a strangely medieval piece which the orchestra handled skillfully; and Bach's Suite No. 3 in D Major, a bright, sometimes majestic piece built on sparing major chords which...
Schnabel's Duodecimet and Haydn's Symphonie Concertante in B-Flat Major formed the balance of the program, each quite well done. The Philharmonia has only one more concert this season, on May 2, and they certainly deserve a better turnout than Sunday's paltry few hundred...
...season's opener was any indication, this will be a fine year for the Philharmonia. If the season's first audience was indicative, it may also be the last year for the Philharmonia. The orchestra deserves better than that...
...strained. Schneider, who has a tendency to rush into the beginning of a movement, and then gradually slow down, caught Wright off guard at the beginning of the third movement and was forced to start over. But these were minor annoyances, not major defects. In fact, the Philharmonia's performance of the Concerto was at least as good as any recorded version of it presently available, and probably better. The horns were particularly accurate, and, with a minor exception here and there, the violins were first rate...