Word: frescobaldi
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HARPSICHORD (Epic). The son of the great Russian bass, Alexander Kipnis, Igor Kipnis is a passionate champion of the harpsichord: he adds to flawless technique a virile attack and a vital conviction that the literature of an obsolete instrument can still be exciting music. Here he plays oddments by Frescobaldi, Galuppi, Pasquini, Rossi and Cimarosa-who wrote when the harpsichord was the highest ornament of Renaissance sensibility. Most elegant of all is Scarlatti's Toccata in D Minor, the last movement of which consists of 29 florid variations on an old Italian theme, tossed aloft by Kipnis like fireworks...
OSCAR GHIGLIA: GUITAR MUSIC OF FOUR CENTURIES (Angel). An anointed disciple of Andres Segovia ("Most meritorious a young Master"), the 28-year-old Italian guitarist goes from Frescobaldi and Dowland up to Villa-Lobos with brief musical sketches that contrast as widely in mood as in century. His forte seems to be the modern works by the Mexican Manuel Ponce and Villa-Lobos, in which he gives an almost exolosive account...
...high jinks, though, Fiedler liberally laces his joy juice with headier stuff from Handel, Frescobaldi, Poulenc and Stravinsky. He delights in proclaiming, "I've been accused of making more friends for music than any other conductor. I have no use for those snobs who look down their noses at everything but the most highbrow music. I'm a serious musician, but I don't want to be classified. I'd be bored doing only symphony music...
CHAMBER MUSIC of the baroque period will be presented at the Jewett Arts Center at 4 p.m. Sunday. Program includes works for diverse chamber groups by Stradella, Frescobaldi, Monteverdi and Handel...
...these three, Norman Dello Joio's Air Power Suite would no doubt suffice; a few bar's of Gluck might enliven the second; and Offenbach is the only answer for the third. Certainly other suggestions are possible, but continuing the present entr' acte offerings is worse than playing Frescobaldi at a Yovicsin press conference...