Word: preludio
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Kremer even dabbled in electronics. This came in a shortish Preludio by the contemporary Soviet composer Alfred Schnittke. The music had an eerie, almost macabre aura, heighte at one point when Kremer played against a passage that he had taped earlier and that was being beamed into the hall over loudspeakers. But Kremer's interpretations of two unaccompanied works by Bach-the Partita No. 1 in B-minor and, as an encore, the fiendishly difficult Chaconne-were the biggest surprise. This was Bach done in a robust, free style that damned scholarship and gave the music continuous life...
...gave Manhattan (and, on later nights, Baltimore, Washington, Philadelphia) a spine-tingling program. His white hands and fuzzy platinum hair gleaming like an oriflamme, he led the youths through a spirited charge on Bach. The violins, on their feet and playing as one man, rattled off one piece, a Preludio, so brilliantly that the audience roared bravos. After the Bach came the Fifth Symphony of Dmitri Shostakovich, melodiously and pompously hymning the Bolshevik October Revolution. By strictest Carnegie Hall standards, the cheers showed that the Youth Orchestra had passed with honors...
...harpsichord, assisted by Miss, Loraine Wyman, soprano; Miss Helen Jeffrey, violin; Mr. George Barrer, flute; and Mr. Gaston Dubois, violoncello. Following it the complete program: Sonata da Camera, A major, Corelli Sonat, c Minor, Menuetto, G major Siciliano, F major Sonata, F major, Scarlatti Sarabanda, D minor, Corelli Preludio--Allegro, E minor, Pugnani Old English Ballads Golden Sonata, F major, Purcell Sonata, B minor, Handel Come unto these Yellow Lands, Purell Under the Greenwood Tree, Arne
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