Classics at a Festival
HE four Holland Festival programmes, recorded by Radio Nederland and heard from 1YC on successive nights, were worth following, both for the high quality of the performance and for the interest, within a brief space, of the choice of music. The first programme, containing the excerpts from Stravinsky’s Rake’s Progress, needed further annotation and was rather "in the air." The Mozart Piano Concerto (K.450) had sparkle and liveliness; and the Bach B Minor Mass was sumptuously performed by the Netherlands Bach Society. The last programme, of works by modern Dutch composers, was interesting in itself, though in a some-
what heavy, possibly Mahlerish, way. Not the least rewarding thing about the Mozart and the Bach programmes was. that, as far as I can discover, they were superior to any recording at present available. The whole series demonstrated two advantages of this type of special transcription-in giving us new or little-heard music, and in presenting finer performances of classics than we can normally hear on the air,
M.
K.J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 10
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172Classics at a Festival New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 730, 10 July 1953, Page 10
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