ROBERT SIMPSON offers some observations about Beethoven's use of tonality, concentrating specially on the B flat Quartet, Op. 130, the Grosse Fuge , and the Credo from the Missa Solemnis
At the end of the talk the Credo will be heard in its entirety on a gramophone record, with GUNDULA JANOWITZ (soprano)
CHRISTA LUDWIG (mezzo-soprano) FRrrz WUNDERLICH (tenor) WALTER BERRY (baritone)
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MUSIKFREUNDE VIENNA BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Conductor, HERBERT VON KARAJAN
At the end of the series (March 25) there will be a discussion between Denis Matthews and Robert Simpson followed by an interlude at 10.55