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Dates: during 1960-1969
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BRAHMS: GERMAN REQUIEM (Deutsche Grammophon; 2 LPs). "Blessed are they that mourn," softly sings the chorus, and soon the sad saraband begins ("For all flesh is as grass"). At length the black solemnity is relieved by the soaring soprano voice of Gundula Janowitz singing "I will see you again." A powerful, rhythmically relentless performance by Herbert von Karajan, the Berlin Philharmonic and the Vienna Singverein...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 7, 1965 | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...dramatic, the bold musical motives deriving partly from the sounds of the ancient Church Slavonic language ("Glagolitic" is the name given to its written form). From the first brassy fanfare, Czech Conductor Rafael Kubelik leads the Bavarian Radio Orchestra and Chorus in a rousing performance, with brilliant singing by Soprano Evelyn Lear and Tenor Ernst Haefliger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 7, 1965 | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

MOZART: MASS IN C MINOR (Angel). Written for his bride, who sang the coloratura soprano role in its first performance, this was Mozart's last Mass before the Requiem. Wolfgang Gönnenwein conducts the South German Madrigal Choir and Southwest German Chamber Orchestra in this spacious performance, with Edith Mathis exquisitely singing the eight-minute bel canto solo, Et Incarnatus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 7, 1965 | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

RUSSIAN ART SONGS (Vanguard). The soprano is Russian-born Netania Devrath, whose pure and sunlit voice is best suited to songs of springtime and skylarks by Rimsky-Korsakov and Rachmaninoff; but also it can be darkened with sorrow, as in Tchaikovsky's laments (Was I Not a Blade of Grass; To Forget So Soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: May 7, 1965 | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra will conclude its season at 8:30 p.m. tonight with a concert in Sanders Theatre. The program will include works by Mahler, Mozart, and Verdi, and the world premiere of conductor James D. Yannatos's Prieres dans l'arche, Chloe Owen, soprano, will be the soloist in the Mahler and Yannatos works...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HRO Concert | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

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