WILHELM BACKHAUS

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 10, 11 July 1930, Page 5

WILHELM BACKHAUS

To-morrow night, at the Town Hall, Wilhelm Backhaus will open his short season in this city, and judging from the box plans there will be a great audience to welcome the famous pianist back. A Backhaus concert is always an unalloyed delight to mirsical enthnsiaste, for this amazinglyequipped artist makes even hackneyed numbers reveal unsuspected beauties. Backhaus always, spends a great deal of time in arranging his programmes, for he always tries to make his choice of numbers appeal to a wide variety of tastes. .At to-morrow night's programme the composers represented are Beethoven, Bach, Chopin, Mozart, and Liszt, and Backhaus himself, for it is the pianist's arrangement of the "Don Juan" Serenade (Mozart) which is included among the items. _ The Italian Concerto is the Bach composition selected for the programme, and there will be two Beethoven Sonatas—-Opus 31, No. 3, in E flat Major, and Opus 81, in B flat Major. Eight Chopin numbers, and Liszt's everpopular "Liebestraum" and "Second Hungarian Rhapsody" are among the other chosen items. As there is every indication of a very big audience to-morrow night, the E. J. Gravestock management has arranged for unreserved tickets to be on sale to-day and to-morrow morning at the Bristol.