Ravel By Prague
In view of the complete booking for both the series of concerts to be given in the evenings by the Prague Quartet of the University of Canterbury during the winter, it has been decided to include in the lunch-time concerts, given each Thursday, some of the major string quartets in the repertoire. Today, at 1.10 p.m., in the University Hall, the Prague Quartet will play Ravel’s String Quartet in F major. At its first subscription concert the quartet played the second movement as an encore.
Like Debussy, Ravel only composed one quartet. Musicians rarely agree which is the finer. Both are individual, colourful and wrought with true Gallic logic. With Debussy’s exotic turn of melodic phrase Ravel matches his more fiery, yet cosmopolitan vocabulary of harmonic invention and instrumental resource. All that is best in early twentieth-century music is summed up in the music of the F major quartet. This will be the last recital organised by the School of Music of the University of Canterbury' for this term. The next will be given on Thursday, June 2. Admission is free to members of the public.
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Press, Volume CV, Issue 31045, 28 April 1966, Page 13
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189Ravel By Prague Press, Volume CV, Issue 31045, 28 April 1966, Page 13
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