ORGAN RECITALS

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2157, 25 May 1914, Page 3

ORGAN RECITALS

The attendance at Mr. Bernard F. Page's weekly organ recital at-the Town Mali on Saturday wetting was very gratifying indeed, and an encouraging sigiv that the class of music which the City Organist has sot as liis standard of public taste is steadily attracting the quota of appreciation to which it- is justly entitled. Mr. Page's programme oft Saturday evening consisted β-f' representative studies from .the albums of 'Wagner, Tsehaikflvsky, IfMeinbffrgcr, .Holloway, Salome, Ccsnr Frairck, and'

Letri&re, ami in his happv selection of items presented to his audience 4 diversity ,at-once interesting and_ tasteful. The organist opened with a "Suite Aacicnnp," of Holioway's. Thesuite was introduced by. a melodious prelude, to which succeeded a iiaost charming "Courante" (an eld French daiice), written in the forjn of a canon. Tho iliird Blimbor of the swto a "duoi"' in wtoh the organist acbiwed a most pleasing effect by using tto swell 'and Rreat organs for the voice parts, with ohpil , aceompftnimeait. Tlw Alia l?uga" closed 3 most attrnciivo suite. Another item of iwto was the closing seems from "Wagner's opera "Das PdwingQliil," Tepfoscnting tho entry of the (iods into AValhalSa-. The characteristic lnagnificeucft of Wagner's bold cadences, and tempcshiftiss orchestratioii. were auniirabl} , denieted 'in Mr. Page's perfo.Mia.tsco of

this exacting number, '.flie typical and melancholy "beauty of Tscliaikovsky's writings was charmingly represented in' his "IntertaesHto" from his "Suite for the Orchestra" (Op. 43). Jthembhrger was represented by a pleasing_bracket, "Contemplation" and "Improvisation"; Lcmaro by his "Concert Stuck" (Op. Soli a piece of great technical brilliance: ami Cesar Franek, Uy his "PreJudo, Fugue, nnd-Variation" (Op 18), nno of his finest works. SUNDAY EVENING RECITAL 'lh«G was only a small attijndance at fcho Town Hail last night, when an (HKan recital by Mr! Itohert S. Cla«ghtou was «iv<?n, in aid of the Utqwr ilatt llchet Fand. A eoilcr.Ueu "at tlip door resulted in £4 Is. 3d. being taken. The recital was Iktonorl to wstli appreciative interest by those p-resen!). The following was the ptogramme ;— ■Treiude Oboralo" (W. T. Best); "1»trodaciiou and Allegro" (l< , . E. Macho.); rereric, "A Dream of Spring" (Kendall);- "Orand Sonata in A ■Major" McAdolssalm); "Naotilns" (M'Wow-cßj; "Melody in D" (Coleridge-Taylor); orsma concerto, "Adagio kii Free Styk , ' (Gustav Jferkol); "Pfcludc and Fugw in 0 Minor" (J. S." Bach); "Pastoraie in A Major" (GuilmanO; "Cradle Song" (Lani;©): "rosthtde" (Gisby),