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'rh'w'-'xi’wsirAKlxv-r.—cKMl.ttfV'*^535888•«**V■'vr »• lt;#sr^*»£caf^r—: ...Iv/ ••' / * • 5 •* • »••• 4P- 'S V ’ •F'fcrVf.VviI. ••w'•I'•lt; .; *. i-.» «i5 - -um-,fw■xm-zvmt Ci' v:.c!r£-1 Y:-Vv-V. •-»',•* .*.' •.’ ■*•.•• ,/•; .'s’*?5-*V; ? T^rvfV^^,v; :K*v^U;Jyr M 1 • ” •-.•:^-';.4;..:v A \£4£i’V ^*..vi:.i.;-■ • .....7 .*•* V« »■ wr- •■*.;? • »*•* ••*•* jilP* *-•:• '£■■German Headquarters of The Musical Courier,y; ; Berlin, W., Linkstrasse it., • • •. ‘ ', * *\ ' ! ‘ . ■ if * * '■• ,'.'•*/ • •'. ••••.•*' ■*,■•.. •■ *•;..,.; ^ ;■;• j;-lt; y y-;^ !rV ' ■. Jan. aist, 1896.:y;^ FAOIt:;:QtJA:RTEt;''v''. \?H0, . virtuosodom^^^^^ T^ pretentious Liszt fantasiaquasi sonata “ Aprfcs une lecture de; Dante ” he invested mth a musical meaning of which the work hardly, seemspOs?esse^nd ap the bravura tarantella fipm “ La Muette and drowned with applause. Of course he was tired out,but that did not avail him any with his public. They were not to be appeased with mere bows, so after a while thevirtuoso sat himself dowji again and gave them the entire E major Polonaise by Liszt.d VRussian concert here; week before lastpredominated atj^ die cprtceto ^last week, mirabile dictu, even some Russian chamber music’• •• * V: .•.‘•.v. *• '. V. •.?'•*,i” s * :v '• , t’-v , :'.fc’ . ;* •.: ’ ' l' V' •-’■■■•' ‘ .* •'■• .■*'found hearing and £ i^ost erithusi^tic reception in Berlid.'It was*tli0■ ^;iqu PSI-rt'/ tlvfefrte;J ,ytlii^fe\;• rilt;tes, B flat, y.F* whicli^is; m odern Rtt$si^ny music, S^aieflf;work of font best known Russian cctopose^^eachone of whom l\^ote one moveriient of this string.4jiiartet, the first one by N. Rimsky-Korsakow, the jspherzo, by A. Laidow, the sjow movement by A. Borodine and the finale. ..! * . ,► .1,' r • *■*** . * • • * • % ! • v . . .r 1 * , * * • 9 % . * , • • * . ... * ' . #by A. Glazounpw. Jt^ is ayvirork of ^^idbiis import and great musical skill and cleverness in workmanship, and it well deserves the hearing which it received for the first time in Germany on Tpesday M last week, on the occasion Of the third chamber pti^c soirde of the Halir Quartet These gentlemen plp^d the wrork in clear and finished style and with well njgh perfect ensemble. ;;The effect on a cultivated audience was a telling one, and the short Borocjjne slow movement in D minor, which is held, in the manner of a Spapish serenade, was vociferously nedeifnandedireally: most clever, also the most extended, movement is Glazounow’s finale. One^ . * • I _ • . ' . . . • . ' . * . /peculiarity which struck me at first sight in glancing over the little score is that all four composers (surely Withouthaving consulted with each other on the subject) give the first theme to the viola.« *• ' T . 5 . - ,• *• (• * • t • i • • * . ••The Brahms cult which predominated, and most persistently so, during the week of the composer’s presence in Berlin found its momentary close at this same soiree through the performance of the trio in E flat, Op. 40, for piano, violin and horn. The thing doesn’t work and it cannot work, so Professors Barth and Halir, together with the royal chamber virtuoso A. Littmann (Waldhorn), although they laboured hard and laboured conscientiously, laboured invain.ARRIGO SERATO.*{f.Wednestjtgy ev Serato, the yt»ung Italian violinist and prot^gd of Etelka Gerster, gave his third concert. He had a large audience,not again “ score ” as he had in some marvellous mapper succeeded in doing at his first, and, in a lesser degree, at his second concert. He has musical temperament, but he has not the depth or breadth to perform the Bach* I • * « ,* »in a style that would warrant his being placedamong the great violinist of our day. Nor is his technicsufficiently sure and well enough developed to allow theyoung fellow to play the Paganini Witches theme andvariations, with anything more than superficial dash andbrilliancy, but not with pure intonation., or technical certainty.EMPEROR WILLIAM MEMORIAL CHURCH.. , . • 1 • • • •. • • * • • *Thursday night I went first to the Emperor William Memorial Church, where a concert was given before a swell audience, and for the benefit of the charitable organisation, Jugendheim; at Charlottenburg. Dr. H. Reimanri, the organist of this fashionable, and very exclusive church, performed, with great manual as well as pedal skill, and with admirable taste in registration, Bach’s prelude in E flat, and triple fugue for organ. The a capella chorus of the Royal High School for Music sang, under Prof. Adolph Schulze’s direction, Wilheim Berger’s most touchingly beautiful setting of “ Miide das Lebensboot weiter zu steuern,” for six part chorus a capella, and I stayed long enough to hear Professor Joachim,’ the ever admirable and ever venerable, perform the Beethoven G major romanza.UAUS DEUTSCHLANDS GROSSER ZEIT.”FERRUCCIO BUSONI.' * ■ ■ * % * .1Busoni is fast growing to be a power here, and though in the beginning he had many obstacles to overcome, heis already earning the fruits of his unerring and likewise... • » • , ' • . . . . • . - ••uncompromising artistic conscientiousness and steadfastness.- • . • * • •. •I was in time for the Chopin studies. This was the first time that I ever saw the twelve studies which form, ' ' , * , , * * • * . vChopitfs Op. 25 figure on a programme in their entirety. It is no small undertaking to play the entire dozen at one sitting, and give to each one its peculiar character, lend to each a special charm, and above all play them all with absolute mastery of technic, and with surpassing beauty of touch and richness and volume of tone.Busoni, after a half a dozen recalls, had to yield to the encore fiends in the middle of the programme and here inserted the Schumann toccata in a tempo, and despite them m r .* • « * ' . ( ...Friday evening the Stern Singing Society gave its secondconcert of the season, on which occasion, in honour and anticipation of the next day’s jubilee anniversary of the existence of the German empire, Seyffardt’s cantata, “ Aus Deutschland’s grosser Zeit” (“Germany’s Great Days”), was produced for the first time under Prof. F. Gernsheim’s direction. It proved a sorry pike d'occasion, and that nothing better could be found to celebrate so important and festive a national event shows better than anything else how poor Germany i$ in great composers nowadays. Two solo numbers for alto were much applauded by a good-natured audience, but they are of maudlin sentimentality in musical contents, and therefore I judge that it was the singing ofMme. Iduna Watter-Choinanus which must have pleased the public.• . , ' * ' , * * * ♦ ' , •* **• .On the whole the performance was a fair one, albeit theStern chorus does little more than straightforward, ordinary, everyday choir work. Such things as fine shading in dynamics, clear pronunciation of the text, elaboratephrasing, simultaneous breathing, not to speak of finessesand changes in tempo, are hardly thought of.
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Musical Courier
London, Middlesex, GB
Thu, Feb 27, 1896
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