KREISLER COMING TO WELLINGTON.

Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 119, 23 May 1925, Page 10

KREISLER COMING TO WELLINGTON.

'«, «crejsler> the world-famed violinist, the Sydney Bulletin" critic writes: fill Am - t v moment the Handel Sonata, filled with a flowering peace, flowed out "f°S^ nnyey Town Hall on .Saturday mght the audience sat entranced by Kreisler and his magic Guarnerius. It b not only that the quality of his'music is mellow and ri ch Tn song, or that it flashes through intricate and brilliant passages with the grace and dancing lightness of sunbeams. Other violinists rT t Se ?\ alities- But this man P°pT thr°u Sh his instrument that pure, fresh rapture with which he first greeted his composers. He brings an intense sensitiveness to lii s interpretations, and nowhere was this more Aotable than in the Bach Suite in E Major. Kreisler gave Bachs music to the world, not only as a supreme bit of craftsmanship, but coloured with the rush of emotions °Vf lnS^ Ted iU Yet «vas the Mendelssohn Concerto that was the triumph of the evening. There was a rapture a pearl-like lustre about the Andante movement that stirred the audience to an unbelievable emotional pitch. This beautiful work curved from Kreisler s bow winged with ethereal lightness and grace." Kreisler will be giving two llfrt 2V he nTown Hall °" Tuesday and Thursday, 9th and 11th June. Preferential box plans are now open at The Bristol.