PAUL VINOGRADOFF.

Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20907, 14 July 1933, Page 3

PAUL VINOGRADOFF.

RECITAL TO BE GIVEN IN CHRISTCHURCH.

Few pianists of eminence have had such a romanitc and adventurous career as Paul Vinogradoft, who will give a recital in the Jellicoe Hall on Thursday, July 20. When he was eight he gave his first series of pianoforte recitals in Russia and Poland, and during his later student years became a close friend of the composer Nicholas Scriabin, whose works, after the war, became the centre of a worldwide cult. Vinogradoff was often praised by Scriabin as the ideal interpreter of certain of his works, one of which M. Vinogradoff is to play at his recital. He graduated with highest honours from the famous Moscow Conservatoire, in 1911, and later was appointed by the Imperial Russian Musical Society to the directorship of the Academy of Tomsk. Hundreds of concerts have been given by him in China, Japan, and Java. His programme will be as follows: — Sonata No. 2 Op. 27 (Beethoven), Sonata-Fantasy Op. 19 (Scriabin), Seven Studies (Chopin), Berceuse (Chopin), Waltz in A flat Op. 42 (Chopin), Five Preludes (Vinogradoff), Melody in E Major and Polka de W.R. (Rachmaninoff), Forest Murmurs, Dance of the Gnomes, Liebestraum, Venezia E Napoli, Tarantella (Liszt). The box plan is at the Bristol.