Juxtaposition
SESSION that provides pleasant music grouped in such a way that the mind is stimulated by a problem, is something to remember. Such a one was a recent 7 o’clock orchestral hour from 1ZM, when we heard consecutively Talemann’s Suite in A Minor for flute and strings, and Bach’s Suite in B Minor, so for flute and strings. Here, side by de, were two contemporaneous works drafted in the same musical idiom, bound by the same art form, and written for similar groupings of instruments. Telemann represents some of the best of
music which was turned out in the early that spate of competent and pleasing 18th century; the quality that makes Bach’s music a little more than this is hard enough to define and clarify, and our best chance is to hear it in such juxtaposition. The Bach quite, to my mind, ranks beside the first Partita arid the 5th Brandenburg Concerto as an ideal introduction to his music, which is not to say that it will not wear every bit as well as works that are more obscure at first hearing. How the Telemann Suite stands in relation to its composer’s countless other suites and his 170 concertos, I have no means of knowing, but it leaves me hoping that more will be available some day soon,
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 312, 15 June 1945, Page 13
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220Juxtaposition New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 312, 15 June 1945, Page 13
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