Bach's Message
HE title "Passiontide Chorales of J. S. Bach" does not in itself represent for me a half-hour of unalloyed pleasure. A great deal depends upon the way the work of J. S. Bach is presented, and in this connection the Good Friday feature given by Clarence B. Hall and the Avon Singers over 3YA spoke directly to me: The narrator (C. W. Cobby, if I am not mistaken, though his name was not given), with his strong, pleasantly modulated voice, gave these melodies their 15th Century reformation setting, and repeated their words. The peculiar personal intimacy with Christ characteristic of these very words set the same mood of tender passion as the music itself better than any formal analyses could have done. In saying this I am not
criticising the singers for not making every word clear when it was in English, for this is almost impossible in
massed singing.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 10
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153Bach's Message New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 718, 17 April 1953, Page 10
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