Word: verum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...worth hearing anyway. Fleet performances by Laurence Berman and Richard Friedberg of two four-hand piano works, almost as much fun to listen to as to play. Group of pieces by vocal nonet: opening canon pretty insecure, but singers got better as they went along, and the motet Ave Verum came off very well. The celebrated "Dissonant" Quartet suffered at the hands of the Cambridge Quartet from raggedness and faulty violin intonation. If only all the players had been up to 'cellist Charles Forbes! The group has done much better in the past. Sarah-Jane Smith the concert's featured...
...Palestrina. I do not know whether Verdi's melodramatic climaxes and sensuous cadences are inherently unsuited for religious music, but their operatic association have certainly made them so for me. Even Mozart did not fare well in such company, perhaps because the firmly established tonalities of his Ave Verum Corpus seemed restrictive and sentimental when placed next to the more highly flexible modal style. A group of chansons by Debussy, however, by no means conveyed this sense of restriction. Set to poems by Charles D'Orleans, a medieval courtier-poet, the chansons caught the naivete, humor, as well...