CARRENO.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11999, 27 July 1907, Page 2

C ARRENO.

The coining of Carreno to Nelson to give one recital must b 9 regarded as a fortunate circumstance. In October Madame Carreno has to commence a series of eignty concerts in America, which have already been bought up b y speculators} and her trip to the Antippdes is merely en route—a sort of holiday. She has only had time to make a few appearances in the principal cities of Aus^ tralia; but, judging from the high laudatory notices of the Press, she obtained immediate attention and recognition as a player of extraordinary talent. This is not surprising, inasmuch as she i 3 generally admitted not only to be tb9 greatest woman pianist of the world, but in the front rank with the most famous men players of our time. It is related that when a wandering Australian in Vienna a few yeais ago asked the famous Teschetitzky to name the best pianist in the world, he replied, "There are five best pianists — d'Albert, Carreno, Busoni, Paderewski, and Saver," A remarkable thing about Carreno is that her power— that is, her capacity for to&e production — is much greater than that of the average male virtuoso; but, better still, from the musician's point of view, the universality of her genius as a player is such that while she can make a tremendous "tour de force" of a Liszt Rhapsody, she is exquisitely tender in her treatment of. Chopin, while she excels as an exponent of Beethoven. The popular Australian verdict is certainly not averse to the dictum pronounced by Hans von Bulow on one occasion, that Carreno is "the most interesting pianoforte player of the present age;"