THE CHERNIAVSKY RECITALS

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2445, 26 April 1915, Page 7

THE CHERNIAVSKY RECITALS

A CLASSICAL CONCERT,

On Saturday evening the Cherniavsky trio gave their fourth recital in Wellington, and delightful though their previous 'recitals have been, that of Saturday night altogether, outweighed them as regards achievement and interest. It is very long since such a programme has been given in Wellington, for it was an evening with the classics, and as such remains an outstanding performance of these very gifted brothers. The Opening number was Beethoven's great trio for piano, violin,. and 'cello in G Major (No. 2 Op. 1), and its performance was at tho end greeted with enthusiasm. The next number wan the Tschaikowsky trio in A Minor, and to hear thisnoblo composition so typically Russian in character, played by the Cherniavsky Brothers was to hear it as it can but seldom be heard in this country, since the Russian temperament was its interpreter. An insistent audience demanded an encore, and a ''Moment Musicals" was added. A piano and violin sonata in C Minor, Op. 45 (Grieg), was played by Leo and Jan Cherniavsky, for which the encore was a Beethovon sonata. Misehel Cherniavsky's contribution to the programme (the 'cello) was the "Sonata in A Major" (Luigi Boecherie), and for his encore number a gavotte_ (Bach), unaccompanied. Tho playing ,of the National Anthems of the Allies, the Russian, French, and English, concluded a very heavy and exacting programme, which will be remembered by many of those that heard it as having afforded them very great pleasure indeed. The Concert Chamber, in which the concert was j held, was filled.

l*i the afternoon the three brothers gave a concert in the Victoria Home (Wellington Hospital), which had proved a source of great delight to the patients and tho nurses who were ablo to attend it.