TALENTED PIANIST

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 132, 1 December 1936, Page 4

TALENTED PIANIST

MISS ISA ANDERSON

Admirable musical instinct was shown by Miss Isa Anderson, L.R.S.M., in a pianoforte recital at Nimmo's Hall last night. Miss Anderson was presented by Miss Valeric Corliss, who is an indefatigible worker for the advancement of music, and she fully justified the confidence that had been placed in her. Her technique is adequate for the most exacting demands, and her well-arranged crogramme gave her -ample scope for her undoubted interpretative powers. Miss Anderson has real feeling for tone, but in none oi her items did she lose the rhythmic pulse of the music. Her programme included Haydn's delightful "Sonata No. 5 in C Major," "Prelude No. 8 in B Flat Minor" (Bach), "Bourree in B Minor" (.Bach, arranged by Saint-Saens), "Gigue in A Major" (Bach), the chorale, "Mortify Us by Thy Grace" (.Bach, arranged by Rummell), "Three Clavierstucke :< (Scarlatti), a work which never sounds satisfactory on the piano, Prelude in F from "Three Romantic Preludes" (Thomas Dunhill), two sea chanties. "Shenandoah" and "Billy Boy" (arranged by Harold Rutland), 'Idyll and "Concert Etude" (Poldini), "Malaguena" and "Seguidillas" (Albeniz), and "Scherzo in B Flat Minor' (Chopin). Variety was given to the programme by two brackets of songs sung by Miss Molly Atkinson, contralto, whose rendering of a group of Brahms lieder had the Gerhardt touch. At times the hall was too small for her big notes, but her singing was always sweetly eloquent. Miss Atkinson's numbers included "We Wondered," "The Serenade," "Faint and Fainter," "The Vain Suit," and "The Sandman, all by Brahms, "The Cloths, of Heaven (Thomas Dunhill), "When I was One-and-Twenty" (Armstrong Gibbs), me Song of the Palanquin Bearers (Martin Shaw), and "A Slumber Song of Madonna" (Michael Head) The accompanist was Mr. Clement Howe.