TOSCHA SEIDEL

Evening Star, Issue 18045, 12 August 1922, Page 8

TOSCHA SEIDEL

“ GENIUS OF THE VIOLIN.” Pleasurable anticipation is being aroused in musical circles at the forthcoming visit of Toscha Seidel, tho young Russian violinist, who is duo here, after phenomenal successes in Australia, following on English, American, anti Continental triumphs. In London he was acclaimed as “ tho greatest violinist that has appeared in this country since tho highly endowed Mischa Elman took tho world by storm.” His first public appearance was made at the age of fourteen, at Christiania, where ho gave a recital before Royalty. Success continued in bis train, and ho travelled in America, England, -and Scandinavia during the war periods. After his Australasian tour ho will return to America and then to the Continent. Ho has accepted engagements as far ahead 1 as 1924. “He is the most emotional violinist we have had here for many years” (says the Melbourne ‘Ago’). “Yet it. is all done with very little apparent effort. Toscha Seidel has no platform airs. His emotionalism is not a fevered or hectic thing. It shows in his wide range of tone changes, in the swiftness of his changes, in his manifold play with j'hythm, and in his climaxes, which are sometimes staggering in their intensity.” This brilliant player will open his season at His Majesty’s Theatre on Thursday evening, appearing again on Saturday, August 19 and Monday, August 21, under the J. and N. Tait direction. Included in the first programme will be ‘ Chaconne ’ (VitaJi-Charlier), ‘Concerto in E. Minor’ (Mendelssohn), ‘Romance in G. Minor’ (Beethoven), ' Roeamundo’ ballet music (Schubert-Joachim), ‘Gipsy Airs’ (Sarasate), ‘ Hungarian Dance’ (Brahms-Joachim), and other numbers. The box plans for the three concerts open on Monday morning at The Bristol.