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A very successful pianoforte and vocal recital was given by Miss Rosine de Vries and Mr. Atherton Smith at Queen’s Hall on Monday last, the occasion being the fust appearance in London of both artists. Miss deVries, who is a pupil of M. Fritz Hartwigsen, does the fullest credit to her master, and has acquired to a remarkable degree the wonderfully dainty touch for which the Danish pianist has always been famous. Her rendering of the Waldstein sonata—no light task lor a debutante— waS noteworthy as a sympathetic and carefully thought-out performance; while in the six studies of Chopin, which formed the second item in her programme, the pianist showed herself thoroughly at home in a particularly finished reading ol a master too little understood. Really capable exponents of Chopin are all too few, and Miss de Vries should rapidly achieve reputation in her profession. Mr. Atherton Smith possesses a particularly rich baritone, which he showed to special advantage in “Turn Ye to Me,” an old Highland melody by Malcolm Lawson, as well as in several other songs of varying interest. Both artists can rest content with the result of their first concert, which was attended by a crowded and enthusiastic audience.
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London, Middlesex, GB
Sat, Mar 26, 1898
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