ORGAN RECITAL

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2541, 16 August 1915, Page 3

ORGAN RECITAL

Tile city organist (Jh\ Bernard l'age) submitted a charming programme to a sparse audience on ijaturday evening. Among the major works played was tlic highly dramatic third movement from 'Ischaikowsky's "Pathetic Symphony," a movement which gives the organist fino scope for the freest registration, and which concludes with one of the finest battle pictures ever written. Had '.I'schaikowsky written nothing other than the "Pathetic" his fame would liavo been assured. Mr. Pago also played the "Concert Overture in F" of Mendelssohn, Handel's "Concerto in 1) Minor" farranged for the organ by the late M. Alex. Guilmatit), those clmming "Woodland Bketchcs" of the late Edward MacDowell, to whom statues are being erected in the United States, and the "Prelude, Fuguo and Variation" of Cesar Franck. The prelude consists of a golden thread of the purest melody, variously treated, which recurs again at the close of the variation. The fugue, too, is well balanced and clearly defined. The programme also included a pretty "Barcarolle" by Faulkes, and the "Intermezzo" from an orchestral suite by I'schaikowsky (op. 43), which strikes that characteristic note of melancholy common to Russian music of the last generation.

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