MOISEIWITSCH.

Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 118, 21 May 1928, Page 5

MOISEIWITSCH.

New Zealand has, in the last year or two, welcomed many of the world's most famous artists, pianists, singers, and violinists, and this year it is to pay tribute to one of the younger of those who have attained world fame, Benno Moiseiwitsch, the poet of the piano. He comes to Wellington Town Hall on Thursday next sponsored by Messrs. J. and N. Talt. Moiseiwitsch has great feeling for the melodic line; he lots a poetic charm pervade his interpretations; he is a thorough master of technique; aud he has an inexhaustible knowledge of the national music of many countries. It is five years since he was in this part of the world. Moiseiwitsch Is not content to rest on his laurels—he Is forever enlarging his repertoire and his knowledge— and his audiences benefit from his research. Benno Molsoiwitsch is young and virile, and has the delicate touch of a butterfly where delicacy and lightness aro necessary; ho interprets with rare Insight; ho has enormous technical skill, affection and feeling for music of sentimental import; a pianissimo of exquisite beauty; and he has gained his place in the front ranks of tho world's greatest pianists because ho represents the acme of perfection. His programme will be found to contain classical numbers, romance, and more modern worlcs, for example, compositions by the talented Cheslnc, an American who has captured the mystery of the Orient, and who lias composed two delightful and fascinating descriptions—"Rush Hour in Hong Kong" and "Flirtations in a Chlne.so Garden." The box plans for reserved seats are at the Bristol. There aro special concessions to students.