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(QWEN JENSEN, who enlivened 1YC’s Friday nights last year as he led us through the Mozart canon, is now well launched on a similar exploration of Bach. He is the liveliest and least consciously learned of cicerones, pausing in full cry to point to some feature of Bach’s architecture which has just-so it seems-caught his eye, turning aside from the highway to jog down a little by-path in Bach’s work, never rushing from one four-starred structure to another, and aiways solicitous of the traveller’s ignorance, without patronising him. Perhaps it is because Mr Jensen never takes us too far too fast that I enjoy his sessions rather more than the Bach commemorative programmes of a year or so back. And he seems to have a gift for selecting recordings which show Bach at his best, as with the very beautiful Cantata No. 76 last week. Does he, I wonder, use a script, or merely notes? He is one of the few speakers who never lapse momentarily into a "reading tone"; and it is this sense of a spontaneous sharing of enthusiasms which makes his programmes so painlessly didactic.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 921, 5 April 1957, Page 20
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191BACK TO BACH New Zealand Listener, Volume 36, Issue 921, 5 April 1957, Page 20
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