FRANCIS ROSNER ENSEMBLE

Press, Volume XCVI, Issue 28399, 4 October 1957, Page 15

FRANCIS ROSNER ENSEMBLE

Chamber Music Recital

Next Wednesday evening the Francis Rosner Chamber Music Ensemble will present a concert in Christchurch under the sponsorship of the Christchurch Chamber Music Society. The ensemble is lead by Francis Rosner (violin), with Antoni Bonetti (violin h, Ralph Aldrich (viola), Marie Vandewart (’cello), Janetta McStay (pianoforte), Frank Gurr (clarinet), and Peter Glen (horn). Mr Rosner has been a member of -the National Orchestra since his arrival in New Zealand from Vienna in 1948. He has introduced many new works to New Zealand concert and radio audiences, but he has no musical preference. As a soloist and as an ensemble leader he gains as much satisfaction from familiar and well-loved works as he does from the most esoteric contemporary music. His father was a ’cellist, and his mother was an opera singer attached to the Hamburg State Opera. At the age of 10 he won a scholarship to the Vienna State Academy of Music. Mr Rosner has toured extensively in Switzerland, Italy, France and the Middle East as a soloist and as a leader of chamber orchestras. He now lives in Wellington. • The programme for Wednesday evening will be Trio for violin, horn, and pianoforte, Op. 40, in E flat, by Brahms; Quintet in A major for clarinet and strings. K. 581, by Mozart; and Quintet in E flat minor, Op. 44, for string quartet and piano, by -Schumann.