Queensland Quartet

Hutt News, Volume XXI, Issue 49, 2 June 1948, Page 9

Queensland Quartet

PERFECT STRING MUSIC HUTT AUDIENCE DELIGHTED The. concert, given by the Queensland State Quartetin Lower Hutt last ; Friday night will dbng 'be ; a fragrant memory to music-lovers. Many people here, as elsewhere, were almost afraid of the term "chamber music,", thinking it was something only for the "high-brows," but that view was changed after hearting those four gifted players from Aus-tralia--Ernest Llewellyn (first violin), Harold Taberner (second violin), David Powell (viola), and Don Howley ('cello). More perfect ensemble woVk would be hard to imagine. The four instruments blended as one —so much so that the hearer at. times was apt to forget the individual gifts of the players and the lovely individual tdne produced in the perfection of the whole, which was as it should be in quartet work. The programme opened with Beethoven's Quartet in C Minor, followed by Haydn's Quartet in D Major, both of which delighted the audience. But.it was in Dohnanyi's Quartet No. 2 in D Flat Major that the players aroused their hearers to the greatest enthusiasm-. This beautiful composition was played in a manner that had to be heard to be believed, the constantly changing moods being perfectly expressed.

The whole evening was a. rare delight, and Hutt Valley musiclovers will hope for a return visit by the gifted players from Queensland.