TOWN HALL ORGAN RECITAL
Mr Bernard F. Page, City Organist, gavo his weekly recital on Saturday evening at tho Town Hall, in the presence of an audience which evidently enjoyed fully the fine programmo presented. The recital opened with Beethoven's "Coriolan" overture, a number that never fails to ovdko hearty approval. The short Lento and gracious Andantino in E Flat, by Cesar Franck, which woro introduced at tho last recital, wore repeated by request, .with equally marked success. Tho delightfid Andante (from - a string- quartette) by Debussy, and a Grant dv Matin. (Bluotte) by!GUilmant, wero most tastefully played, and wero followed by a splendid rendering of Bach's Toccata and FuguoMn C Major, tho possibilities of the magnificent trum-pet-call which forms tho subject ' of tho ■fugue being fully brought out. Tho second section of tho recital consisted of two Witgnfcr numbers, the first being that unsurpassable melody, • Walther's - "Prize. •Sprig", from "Die Mcistersingcr," and the second the Prelude to Act I. of "Tristan and Isolde,"' both played in a manner that fully realised, the high expectations always raised when Mr. Page is announced .to interpret any of Wagner's masterpieces.
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Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 2 June 1919, Page 8
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188TOWN HALL ORGAN RECITAL Evening Post, Volume XCVII, Issue 128, 2 June 1919, Page 8
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