Word: sonata
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bach's Sonata No. 3 in E major for violin and klavier opened the program. In the classic manner, the gamba, with its forest of tuning pegs, doubled the continuo of the harpsichord. The trio maintained a nice balance; its members played to each other. But slippery intonation and lack of clarity marred the violin's performance, and the harpsichord indulged in unjustified rubatos and changes of tempi...
...parts of the Sonata No. 2 in D major for gamba and klavier, the double-manualed harpsichord sounded as if it were sporadically unwinding. It is no criticism of the gamba to observe that it lacks intensity in the ranges where the cello would have it, but the notes themselves seemed lackadaisically defined in the fast passages, and the general shape of the concluding fast movement was unclear...
Eternal Sounds. A plywood screen behind the orchestra only partially deflected Mediterranean breezes, and musicians were forced to clip their scores to their stands with wooden clothespins. Casals seemed unbothered; his back to the sea, he swung into Bach's Sonata in G. Performers who had been worried about the open theater's acoustics soon learned to forget their fears. The Romans had staged dramas, musical contests and water ballets at Caesarea, and the ancient impresarios knew their business. In the slow second movement, sustained, vibrant notes, clear and fragile as crystal, rippled to the topmost rows...
Sunday's schedule: Vivaldi's Concerti for oboe and strings in D minor and F; Bach's Trio sonata (no. 7) and Canon perpetuum (no. 8) from The Musical Offering; Mozart's Concerto no. 5 in A. K.219; and Beethoven's Symphony no. 7 in A, opus...
...Sunday's recordings include Mozart, Serenade no. 11 for Winds, in E flat major; Beethoven, Sonata no. 15 in D major; Opus 23; Schuman, Quintet in E fiat major for Piano and Strings, Opus 44; Bizet, Symphony no. 1 in C major; and Bach, Concerto Grosso no. 1 for Strings and Orchestra with piano obligato...