ANDRE SKALSKI.

Press, Volume LIX, Issue 17756, 7 May 1923, Page 14

ANDRE SKALSKI.

FIRST RECITAL TO-MORROW. Mr Andre Skalski, the eminent Polish pianist, will give his first recital in the Choral Hall to-morrow evening at 8 o'clock, when a particularly interesting and varied programme will be presented, embracing the works of some of the world's greatest composers. To-morrow night's programme will comprise the following numbers:—Two Rhapsodies (Op. 79), Brahms; Pastorale and Capriccio, Scarlatti; Two Fragments from Richard Wagner's Music Dramas; Isolde's Love Death, Liszt; Wotan's Parewell and Fire Husic, Brassin; Berceuse, Chopin; Vaise £ Minor, Chopin; Rigoletto Paraphrase, Liszt; ilelodv, Rachmamooff; Prelude G. Minor, Rachmaninoff; Study, C. Sharp Minor, Scrinbin; Prelude and Nocturne for Left Hand Only, bcnabin; Dream of Love, Liszt; and Twelfth Hungarian Rhapsody. u .menin The Wellington "'Dominion" says" Adpreciation of the art of Andre Skalski, the Pol£ilh,A t \l ' gr( W w L th ac< J u »i°tauce. Blessed with delicacy of feathery touches and the nicest discrimination in tonal shadines Skalski payed himself into the good graces of the sternest critics, and always lesitimatolv H s treatment o£ the well-known "Bel? eU8e " falls upon the ear like a benediction His fairy touch was exemplified par excellence in the dainty "Pastorale and Capriccio" by Scarlatti. Another feature of the programme was Skalski's revelation of the manifold beauties of the French impressionist, the late Claude Debussy. The box plans for the two recitals are at The Bristol, where seats may be reserved.