RICHARD FARRELL

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28599, 30 May 1958, Page 3

RICHARD FARRELL

Neville Cardus’s Appreciation (N.Z. Press. Association—Copyright) v LONDON, May 28. Neville Cardus, writing in the “Manchester Guardian,” an appreciation of the New Zealand pianist, Richard Farrell, who was killed in a motor accident, says that he I was one of the most promising pianists in Britain. "It is sad irony that his career | has been cut short by an accident, a fate that was shared by William Kapell, who was largely responsible for developing Farrell’s gifts when he first met him in Australia and for introducing .him to the Juillard School at New York,” says Cardus. "Farrell’s technique was extremely facile and always musicaL "He perhaps lacked something of emotional intensity, but this was a limitation that time would surely have corrected, for he was intelligent and responsive. ‘‘Not only had he .a pianist’s command of his instrument and a [wide knowledge of piano literaIture, but he was equally acquainted with music in general. “I have met few pianists of his age who could so easily and cleverly play or reproduce on a piano a symphonic score,” says Cardus.