 | This montage from our Podcast Vault revisits a post from March 31, 2020. It can be found in our archives at https://archive.org/details/pcast335 |
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Today’s
Friday share is the second of three in a row featuring works for organ and
orchestra, following yesterday’s trio of twentieth century works, today’s
selections are also fairly modern, with Widor;s symphony no. 3 for organ and
orchestra acting as the lone 19th century work on the docket.
The montage
and commentary are barely a year old, so I will defer to that post for details
on the three works featured today and instead spend a paragraph on the filler –
a Handel organ concerto from a broadcast performance featuring Karl Richter as
both soloist and conductor.
As I once
discussed, Handel more or less invented the organ concerto as program filler
for his many operas and oratorios. As such, it is not uncommon for the works to
provide opportunities for organ “ad libium”. Richter viewed Baroque music as
fundamentally impromptu, and believed that no work from that era should be
performed the same way twice. His performances were known for their
soul-searching, intense, and festive manner. While his interpretations may have
been overshadowed by the historically informed performance practice movement,
there is still much to be said about them. He recorded most of the Handel
concertos for Decca with his own Chamber Orchestra in the late 1950’s; the
videos available on YouTube date from the early 1970s. The work I kept for
today is a complete performance of the Organ Concerto-Op.7, No.1.
I think you
will (still) love this music too.
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