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Hermann Scherchen in rehearsal / Video Artists International in cooperation with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Toronto ; produced for television by Franz Kraemer.
LIBRA VHS Music Videorecording 295
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Music rehearsals.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videocassette (approximately 58 min.) : sound, black and white ; 1/2 in.
- 1/2 in.
- monochrome
- Other Title:
- Original title: Point and counterpoint
- Original title: Hermann Scherchen rehearsing his new orchestration of Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of the Fugue
- Place of Publication:
- Pleasantville, N.Y. : VAI, Video Artists International for CBC Home Video, 1997.
- System Details:
- VHS; hi-fi.
- analog
- magnetic
- VHS
- Summary:
- Follows a 1965 rehearsal in Toronto of Scherchen's version of Bach's Art of the Fugue, left incomplete and without instrumentation by the composer. Scherchen used wind instruments for the affirmative rectus form and strings for the questioning inversus form.
- Participant:
- Hermann Scherchen and the CBC Toronto Chamber Orchestra, John Dembeck; harpsichord, Kenneth Gilbert.
- Notes:
- Original title: Point and counterpoint : Hermann Scherchen rehearsing his new orchestration of Johann Sebastian Bach's Art of the fugue.
- Video release of a television program originally telecast June 1, 1966.
- OCLC:
- 39645015
- Publisher Number:
- 69408 Video Artists International
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