Kreisler’s Fascination

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17439, 10 April 1931, Page 9

Kreisler’s Fascination

IZHELSLEB has been revisiting England and playing to crowded audiences. One Sunday afternoon lound him at the Albert Hall, playing to an audience completely tilling it. and numbering, therefore, * some 10,000 people. Clearly. Kreisler s drawing power knows no wane, however it may c.e with other artists. And this time his gifts were at their full height, which was'not quite the ease on his previous vis t, when he seemed to have lost some of his old-time impressiveness and to he distinctly below his best. *1 his time all that idea of him vanished as soon as lie began to play this recital, for it. would be difficult to imagine violin performance more artistic, more fu’l of line thinking and feeling, or more delightful to listen to merely as beauty of violin tone, writes one critic. All through the afternoon Kreisler p’ayed it that great, level, and his audience had reason fur the enthusiastic applause- with which it rewarded him.