CHAMBER MUSIC GROUPS

Press, Volume XCVII, Issue 28748, 20 November 1958, Page 20

CHAMBER MUSIC GROUPS

Visits To N.Z. Next Year

(New Zealand Press Association) WELLINGTON. Nov. 19.

Notable chamber music groups will visit New’ Zealand next year under the auspices of the Federation of Chamber Music Societies. The season will open in April with the Barylli Quartet from Austria, whose players are all members of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, and will close with the Quartetto di Roma, a piano quartet from Italy. Members of this latter quartet also constitute the Trio Santoliquido. A highlight will be the visit of the wind quintet of the Czech Philharmonic. One of the world’s foremost opera and lieder singers, the French baritone, Gerard Souzay, will give a series of lieder recitals in July and will be followed by the Australian pianist, Use van Alpenheim, and Jugoslav-born Igor Ozim. violinist, who will tour as a sonata team. Visit By Soviet Quartet (N.Z. Press Association —Copyright) AUCKLAND, November 19. A leading Russian instrumental group is to visit New Zealand and Australia in 1960, says Mr Julius' Hogben, president of the Auckland Festival Society, writing from London. Mr Hogben has been on a cultural visit to Moscow at the invitation of the Russian Embassy in Wellington. The group is the Soviet Beethoven Quartet. "From information given to me by the British Embassy in Moscow," says Mr Hogben, "this is the leading instrumental quartet in Russia and is of a standard comparable with the best chamber music groups in Europe.” Preliminary negotiations are also being made for Russian artists to take part in the Auckland arts festivals next year and