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Works to be performed are the Sonata for Oboe and Piano, Sonata for Viola Solo, Opus 25, No. 1, Sonata Violincello Solo, Op. 25, No. 3, Des Todes Tod, Op. 23a, and Die Serenaden...
...admits: "I find it increasingly hard to distinguish myself from him these days." Like the detective, Rab Raphael-now the British Treasury's chief press officer-is musically literate; he may read through the scores of Beethoven's Rasaumowsky quartets while traveling or sing a Schubert sonata in the bathtub. Says he: "I always sing the left-hand part of a piano piece or the cello part in a quintet. You can hear the whole thing that...
Most of the numbers on the program came from the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque. The major item, however, was the Sonata for Flute, Oboe, 'Cello and Harpsichord (1952) by Elliot Carter '30. The Piano Sonata (1946) marked the beginning of Carter's complete technical mastery. The present Sonata, which won the Walter W. Naumburg Musical Foundation Award in 1956, was written between two highly controversial and monumental works, the String Quartet (1951) and the Variations for Orchestra...
...Sonata is far more accessible on first hearing than either the Quartet or Variations, but many in the audience found it too tough a challenge. This is quite understandable, for Carter's recent music tends to be long on intellect and short on emotion, and there is little melody in the usual sense of the term...
Also on the program were a Telemann Sonata, a Rameau suite, and a spate of smaller pieces--mostly Renaissance chansons. In some of the latter, each verse was played with a different combination of instruments--an authentic Renaissance practice, since instrumentations were not specified by the composers. And in one piece, "improvised" ornamentation was applied from a 16th-century instruction book. This scholarly approach extended even to the printed program, which contained a complete list of manuscript and printed sources such as would warm the heart of the most demanding Ph. D. dissertation grader...