SZIGETI AND ORCHESTRA

Dominion, Volume 26, Issue 10, 6 October 1932, Page 11

SZIGETI AND ORCHESTRA

This Evening’s Concert Much extravagant praise has been lavished on Szigeti in countries where tbe world’s best violinists are available for comparison, and when Szigeti made, his first appearance in Wellington lust Tuesday evening the large audience was satisfied that it had beard a very brilliant artist. Szigeti earned a measure o£ applause rarely extended in Wellington, and most of his audience went away with tbe feeling that words and hand-clapping could hardly do justice to this master craftsman. "The Dominion’s” critic said: “The audience hud only to drink in the exquisite playing and wonder at the amazing technical facility of the artist.” A few weeks ago tbe musical critic of tile Melbourne “Sun,” who is also editor of “Australian Musical News,” said: “Consecrated beauty as satisfying to the soul as Josef Szigeti’s it has never been my fortune to hear from another violinist, and this may lie said while bending a knee as reverently as ever before the kingliness of Kreisler and retaining au admiration within reason for the preciosity of the cool magician Heift.z.” This evening Szigeti will play in tbe Town Hall. Wellington, in conjunction with the Wellington Symphony Orchestra. For the first time in Wellington a full symphony orchestra will be heard in Beethoven’s famous “Coil; certo in D Major,” and with Szigeti coupled with the orchestra, this choice should prove an exceptional treat. The orchestra will also play the overture “Fingal’s Cave,’’ Schubert’s ‘‘Symphony in B Minor” (file famous Unfinished Symphony). and that inspiring triumphal march “Sigurd Jorsalfnr” (Greig). Szigeti’s performance on Tuesday evening earned him admiration far beyond the walls of the Town Hall, and the arrangement for a radio broadcast on that night, has resulted in many eulogistic communications from listeners. Messages of appreciation were_ received yesterday from radio listeners 500 miles from Wellington.