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Mr. Damfurt-berg, this week's guest conductor, gave a perfectly terrible performance of Weber's Oberon overture, and a very good one of those Handel concerti grossi.

From Time Magazine Archive

The concerti grossi are among the finest works of the now shamefully neglected Bloch, and Hanson reads them with snap and vigor.

From Time Magazine Archive

He, the troubled, nervous, modern man, wrote with fluency fugues and double fugues, chaconnes and passacaglie, concerti grossi and variations.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul

He writes fugues for organs and sonatas for violin solo under the influence of Bach, concerti grossi under the influence of Haendel, variations under that of Mozart, sonatas under that of Brahms.

From Musical Portraits Interpretations of Twenty Modern Composers by Rosenfeld, Paul