LUNCHTIME CONCERT

Press, Volume CIII, Issue 30543, 11 September 1964, Page 10

LUNCHTIME CONCERT

Students Play At University Students from the University School of Music played at the lunch-hour concert yesterday afternoon. The programriie began with the Christchurch Wind Trio— Pauline Drain, Antony Reeve, and Jennifer Adams, playing Beethoven’s Trio in C for clarinets. These players showed good precision in attack and kept cohesion throughout the work in admirable fashion, showing the hard work they had put into preparation. Tonally the ensemble was for the most part, pleasing in quality and in balance. The phrasing was well shaped and musically intelligent. There was a refreshing zest to this very competent performance. The Leonard Trio —Angela Kalinowski, violin, Judith Egan, cello, and Diane Rogers, piano—played an Adagio, and a theme and Variations from Beethoven’s Trio in B flat major, opus 11. While more experience in playing together as a team is needed and matters of intonation and of control in timbre are needed to go right to the heart of the music with finely-polished and stylish skill and finesse, nevertheless, there was much to commend in this effort. Aart Brusse, cellist, and John Jennings, pianist, played Bach’s Sonata in D major. In the opening adagio, Mr Brusse’s tone was somewhat lacking in rich quality, but it took on firmer sound with more ringing resonance in the allegro. Mr Jennings played with excellent clarity and understanding. The Christchurch Wind Trio ended the programme with Arnold Cooke’s Trio for Three Clarinets —a frisky work offering much imaginative interest. It was played very beautifully with charming changes of tone and expression all very skilfully blended with musical feeling and deft skill. The unanimous response in balance and the excellent precision in the playing were greatly appreciated.—C.F.B.