MOISEIWITSCH’S FAREWELL

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 388, 23 June 1928, Page 16

MOISEIWITSCH’S FAREWELL

FINAL CONCERT TO-NIGHT Benno Moiseiwitscfa bids farewell to Auckland to-night in a wonderful programme that will assuredly win for this youthful exponent of the pianoforte a full-handed ovation. Cym* mencing with the Bach Prelude in C Major (which discloses the catholicity of spirit possessed by Moiseiwitach'. the evening will be notable for tfce variety of its composers and the versatility of the artist. It will completely satisfy, and at the same time will offer much that is novel. The works of two modern composers are on the programme— Chasins and Jbert former ha s captured the lure o' the Orient, and paints the scenes as if on canvas, with Rush Hour in Hong-Kong and Flirtation in * Chinese Garden. Ibert presents his novel descriptive scene, “La Ano Blanc,” which translates into ‘ Little White Donkey.” Classical in its majesty is the Chopin Sonata in t flat minor, with its funereal movement, its impressive solemnity, and the rap* turousness of the final presto. Sep l ?' mann’s big “Etude Symphoniques »» highly technical in construction and delightful to hear; informative to a degree—asMoisewitsch plays it tragedy of Russia is in Rachmaninovpopular Preludes —the one in G, nunand the other in C sharp minor, wrevelations when the sympathetic, seeking fingers of the famous art*-'-probe for their meaning. PalmfT* has a place on the programme—stately Swan number; while Lisztsi-j Campanella,’ written ingwwon 1 around the insistence of a little will follow on the Liszt arrangement • Schubert’s song “Hark, Hark Lark”—the idea of which came to composer in a restaurant. This is surely a great programme the many thousands of mnsk^-ioversi - Auckland, and the Town Hall be crowded to hear the farewell formance of one of the greatest aruin the musical world to-day. .. The box plans are at Lewis. • Ltd., and there are special conces to students.