MISS QUEREE'S RECITAL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 836, 7 June 1910, Page 6

MISS QUEREE'S RECITAL.

It was ,a remarkably good ■ pianoforta recital that was given last night.by Misa Rene Queree, and the young,pianist had the satisfaction of playing to an audience which packed the Concert Chamber, both floor and gallery, and which manifested great appreciation of her ; playing. Miss Queree shows, great talent' its an execu-, tant, and her style is wonderfully vigorous for so young a player—in fact, ,ouo might almost call it virile, while she possesses an excellent memory. She has already achieved so much,' her- technique is so admirable that' one feels it necessary to add a little criticism, and say that thero was still something wanting in her conception of some of the. things she played last night.-Her"work was brilliant and vigorous. : ' One would sometimes have preferred a greater delicacy, ■ a. more subtle interpretation, but, perhaps, it was just because Miss Queree is. so young that she failed a little here.. Tho first item on the programme, a chromatic fantasia and fugue of Bach, gave Miss Queree an opportunity at once to exhibit her great command of technique. Sho gave a masterful rendering, perhaps a little too vigorous, but that is a fault which the years may alter. As a second item she played Beethoven 3 Variations in A major in a nice crisp, stvle and the Chopin-Liszt ChaiuPolonais" was really charming, while the Chopin Prelude in A • minor,' which she gave as an encore, was played in a very dainty way. Of the four bracketed numbers with which the second part of the programme began, Schubert's. "Impromptu in li flat, was perhaps the least successful. The Godard "Nocturne Italicn'' was plaved" in n manner which brought out, all"its dreamy beauty. Miss Queree s. Schumann interpretations were the best of all. She played them in a delightfully simple style, and in the"Nachtstuck she got a beautful singing tone. With the. last item on her programme, the Men-delssohn-Liszt "Wedding March and, "Elfin Dance," which was a real tour de force, Miss Queree made her greatest appeal to the audience, rendering Liszt s elaboration of Mendelsohns march with, amazing skill and brilliance, and giving, full beauty to the dainty staccato of the "Elfin Dance." . .. , Mr. Frank Charlton, who is a pupil of Mrs. Queree V, sang several songsGounod's "She Alone Charmeth My; sadness," Coleridge-Taylor's "Eleanor, and. Frances Allitssn's "Prince Ivans hong. ; As encores, Mr. Chariton sang Our. Little Love is Newly Born and Violets" He has a fins voice, which-has in it great possibilities, and his enunciation is clear, but the songs chosen were rather too ambitious, and Mr. Charlton did net do justice either to his first item nor to tho dramatic "Prince Ivan s bong. Mra. Queree played his accompaniments.