TERESA CARRENO.

Auckland Star, Volume XLI, Issue 166, 15 July 1910, Page 7

TERESA CARRENO.

■ There was another very appreciative audience at the Choral Ha.ll last evening to hear the world-renowned pianiste, Madame Carreno. The performance was a most enjoyable one. On every possible occasion the gifted virtuoso was enthusiastically applauded, and at the end of the concert received a warm ovation. She gave a magnificent reading of TschaikowEkjjr's grand "Concerto" in B flat minor, Op. 23. The transcendent chords of the opening Allegro were performed with ponderous weight and powerful timbre, while the ornate runs and arpeggios of the Allegro con Spirito were played with the utmost brilliancy and finish. Clear, unerring technique and poetic sentiments marked the reading of the Andantino, while a passionate and dramatic delivery was secured by the. closing movement, the notes of which were fingered with great speed and uniformity, and the brilliant tone chains of the final pages were rendered with the greatest bravura, making the instrument at times quiver under the artist's hands. It was a remarkable performance, for which Madame was enthusiastically doubly recalled at its conclusion. Herr Benno Scherek ably played the second piano part. Chopin's "Sonata" in B minor, Op. sS,'was brilliantly interpreted, the technical difficulties of the composition offering no obstacle to her perfectly trained hands. Beethoven's "Rondo," Op. 51, No. 2, was executed with a refinement of' style and purity of expression that not only developed the full beauty of the composition, but secured for its interpreter the compliment of hearty applause. Schumann's -'Vogel als Prophet" was rendered with much grace and charm of phrasing and exquisite tone quality; while Rubinstein's "Romanza" in E flat, "Barcolle" in G majoT, and "Fausse Note Etude" received excellent performances. A graphic and highly interesting rendering was obtained of the SchubertLiszt "Erl Konig"; the rushing of the storm through the moaning pine-tops, the roar of the thunder, the chill gloom of the dreadful night, were all very realistically expressed ; the crashing chords and arpeggios surging over the keys were darin" feats of bravura, and the climaxes were exciting in their intensity. In response to a demonstrative encore Chopin's D flat ••Waltz was played. To-night the last, concert will be given, when Beethoven's -Sonata." Op. 31, Schumann's '-Etudes Svmphoniqes," and Grieg s "Grand Concerto" in A minor will be performed.