MARK HAMBOURG.

New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume XVI, Issue 956, 2 July 1908, Page 17

MARK HAMBOURG.

According to the programmes he has sent to Messrs. J. and N. Tait, Australian music lovers may contemplate a rare treat when Mark Hamburg visits the different centres of the Commonwealth and New Zealand in the course of the tour upon which he embarks in Sydney next month. They are of the most varied character. In nearly all of them the brilliant young pianist indicates his love for the classics by including works by Bach, Beethoven, Handel and Mendelssohn, and

one concert will be entirely a Beethoven one, comprising the 32 variations in C Minor, the Rondo in G Major, the Polonaise and the E flat and Waldstein sonatas. In another the composers listed are Handel, Beethoven, Scarletti, Paderewski, Henschel, Grieg, Schumann and Liszt —surely a wide enough choice, and in others Sgambati’s arrangement of an air by Gluck, pieces by Bolbrooke, Gabrilowitch and York Bowen make their appearance, besides, of course, Chopin, Rubenstein, Leschetichky and Hambourg himself.