MADAME BRUNSKILL

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22202, 31 August 1935, Page 16

MADAME BRUNSKILL

FIRST AUCKLAND RECITAL Auckland music-lovers will have their first opportunity of hearing tho brilliant English contralto, Madame Muriel Brunskill, at a recital to bo given in the Town Hall concert chamber on Wednesday evening. Madame Brunskill has just completed a phenomenally successful tour of Australia. Commenting on her first concert in the Commonwealth, the musical critic of the Brisbane Telegraph wrote: —"As soon as Madame Muriel Brunskill commenced to sing in the City Hall last night one knew oneself to bo in the presence of a voice—a regal voice, a voice on which is endowed all tho dark majesty of the night, and tho dewy splendour of the morning, a voico which seemed capable of encompassing all things. Nothing like it has been heard in Brisbano before."

Among well-known numbers in which Madame Bruriskill will bo heard aro the following:—The operatic arias "Stella del Marinar" (from "La Gioconda") and "Non Pin di Fioro" (from "La Clemenza di Tito"); tho English songs, "Watermill" and "Silent Moon" (Vaughan Williams), "Hymns from the Rig Veda" (Gustnv Hoist), "February," "Silver," "Five Eyes," "Love's Prisoner," "O Nightingale Upon My Tree" and "Sailing Homeward" (Armstrong Gibbs), and "Dentil and the Maiden," "By the Stream," "Love Hath Lied" and "Hymn to the Almighty" (Schubert). Booking arrangements aro advertised. As an associate artist, Mr. Carl Bartling, tho noted solo pianist, also will appear.