CARRENO.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 888, 6 August 1910, Page 6

CARRENO.

ENTHUSIASM AT THE TOWN HALL. ' New adjectives are needed to describe in fitting terms the. great art of. Teresa Carreno, and the influence which it exerts on ordinary plain-going audiences. If tho effect which we have witnessed towards the end of the last fivo concerts which;this qu«:n of the pianoforte' has given in Wellington is so-awakening, so magical, what must it be in the artistic.centres of' the world where the audiences must necessarily include a large percentage of people having an intimate acquaintance with the master compositions for the instrument that wo hear only once ill a while, once or. twice in a decade by such a player as Carreno. She is the embodiment all that one imagines to bo pure art. With her there is not p. shadow of suspicion of tbcatricalism —no posing, no straining for an .effect in the slightest degree. With the warm glow of a remarkable temperament colouring all, she exerts the _ witchery of an art in which she has risciu to such heights as to make one'marvel and wonder if it is 'possible, that there can be higher planes for virtuosi of the piajio. Last night's audienco at the Town Hall was a large one, and as Madame played and.played:the thaw, as it .wore, of .the cold spirit of drizzling,wot jiiight gradually set in, until it was midsummer in their hearts, and hands and feet could not work hard enough to, inform Cajreno of the wholesale capture which she had' made, and at the conclusion of what was u' most delightful' concert the' great liall raiig'with cheers, and ■a company; of musketeers could not have made more noise than the hii'ndstonn which roso from tho big audience'. It is not necessary hero to deal analytically with the programme, but the deep, calm placidity of MadamcS playing of: Beethoven's "Moonlight" Sonata will not' easily be forgot-' ,-ten. ( ( Nor, will * '. her.' ;delicious delviiigs into "'Chopin I 'i'ac(o readily from the memory. She played tho Nocturne in D'flat, the intricate Polonaiso in, C sharp minor, tho famous waltz in D flat, and-the -fascinating Polonaise in A flat. The waltz wat> encored, and at the'conclusion of the last-named Polonaise, the applause did not cease until she resumed her/seat, and rippled off with the 'daintiest grace the dazzling "Butterfly" Etude of tho same composer. The second fart was illuminated by; Weber's "ConcorUtueck;" with Hcrr Benno' Scbcrek on the second' piano. It was a into' performance, in which Madamo - Carreno "displayed the full force of lior power," and technical: skill., In a lighter vein, she picked out the dainty, minuet of Boccnerini, rattled through Yogrich'3 "Staccato Caprice," and raised' wonder with her strength and enduranco in Gottschalk's "Tremolo." Madame was recalled three times amidst great enthusiasm, and then had to concrdo another item, the Tausig-SchuEert "March Militaire." After that tliero 'were more applause, cheers, and bows, aud so ended a notablo piaiiu concert.