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With Charles Bressler as tenor soloist, Dunn and the Festival Orchestra recreated Cantata 55 ("Ich armer Suendenknecht") and three arias chosen from other cantatas. Bressler, who might be called a coloratura tenor, apparently found no difficulty in notes an octave above middle C; lower, however, his voice was so mobile that it seemed thin at any one instant. Dunn chose slightly strange tempos in the closing work, Brandenburg Concerto No. 5: the second movement was faster, the third slower than usual...
Back in Bean's Bag (Coleman Hawkins, Clark Terry; Columbia) was intended as an epochal encounter between Hawkins' tenor sax and Terry's virtuoso trumpet. Then something went wrong; the true soloist turns out to be Tommy Flanagan on piano. During Hawk's flights of fancy, a wildly distorted recording balance hides the horn behind the accompaniment...
...less than a week in which to rehearse the Beethoven; it is unfortunate that it chose a soloist who took just as long to learn her part...
...plays Getting to Know You with a pig-tailed hoyden named Toni Marcus. His violin is more to him than a tool for saving symphony orchestras, although in the past seven years he has earned more than $3,000,000 for various symphonies by appearing as mock-serious soloist at benefit concerts. He plays the fiddle every day at home and says it helps him when he is in a morose mood...
Finaly, there's the Play of Daniel, the twelfth-century, semi-secular, deml-liturgical Christmas drama from Beauvais. Noah Greenberg has recorded his acclaimed performance at the Cloisters; Russell Oberlin is a soloist (Decca...