SPIVAKOVSKY-KURTZ TRIO.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20860, 20 May 1933, Page 6

SPIVAKOVSKY-KURTZ TRIO.

CONCERT NEXT THURSDAY. Much interest is being taken in musical circles in the forthcoming visit of the celebrated Spivakovsky-Kurtz trio, Who "will give three concerts in the Radiant Hgll commencing next Thursday evening. These three eminent musicians have been playing together in Europe for the last two years, and have just concluded a very successful season in Sydney before coming across to Wellington. Commenting on the first performance the "Sydney Morning Herald" | said: —"All three are brilliant executants. They are also line and sincere musicians. Besides the surface glamour of glorious tone, superb agility, and impeccable polish, thc-y have that deeper charm which comes from thoughtful realisation of the composer's ideas.... Every movement of 1 their interpretation was exquisitely alive. Where opulence of tone seemed called for it came forth in full measure. There was infinite variety of expression and Unfailing emotional quality, yet everything was done with flawless taste." The pianist, Mr Jascha Spivakovsky, is well remembered in New Zealand for his extraordinarily Virile and dynamic playing here in 1922. He is now associated with his younger brother. Tossy, a favourite violinist throughout Europe, and formerly leader of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. The third member of the trio is Edmund Kurtz, generally regarded as the foremost of the younger 'cellists of to-day. He has been acclaimed in Sydney and in Wellington as "the finest 'cellist heard since the first visit of Jean Gerafdy." Plans will be opened at The Bristol on Monday morning.