LILI KRAUS ENTH[?] MUSIC-LOVER[?]

Rotorua Morning Post, Issue 5322, 7 February 1947, Page 4

LILI KRAUS ENTH[?] MUSIC-LOVER[?]

ROTORUA REci* RETURN Vsit M VI0LINIST MOOfl Rotorua received its accolade last night "fJHi world queen of pianoforjH audience that comfortab^B the concert ehamber JM viously en rapport WjB Kraus from the begijj^B her recital and' her acknowledgement of pathy and spiritual was, it is felt, deserved, Music-lovers were also with the hope that they her again before her depa^B September/ in coinpary violinist, Robert Pikler, So^B about the middle of , Aueu^B series of the most impci-tan^B for piano and violin. It long winter. Much of the admiration^B this supreme - artist last n^K compounded of astonishmen^B was a woman who had beet^B of all contact with her instrii^H over two years, in addition^B other adversities of internm^B in her astounding virtuo^H vitality she bears no trace a programme that would these qualities in almost a^H artist to very apparent li^H remained ccmpletely at ease^l ■ Of her playing it can yH brief that it it not mere tH made up of musical 1^1 and digital skill. It migb^H described as musical orato^H notes flo# into phrases; t^H -rises to the heights of dra^H again to the subtlest nuanc^H Lili Kraus proved to man^| first time that the supposa^| tions of the piano, a instrument, are really only^B tations of the performer. l|H hands of such an artist, it new stature, a complete ve^H the wonderful works that masters wrote. The opening number, Sonata in D major, was conc^| and altogether a revelation^H . of- the programme, howe?^| drawn from Schuhert— the^B favourite, after Beethoven, promptus in B flat and E dnced this composer. Sonata in A minor. In^H work, 'the musician expiai^H essence o-f the bell is e^H throughout, with swingingBB and harmonic gonstellation.

tremely difficult third oio^H allegro vivace, revealed complete1 knowledge and with the entire keyboard. The second part of tbe p^| ance opened with Mozart'sS^B D major, an unusual worki^B seldom heard. The final allegretto, gave the artist tunity of displaying her command over the whole rar,^H instrument. Beethoven's Sonata dedic^| Count Y/aldstein, was intende^fl final number and the audieq^| have been content to go bom^H tured with the sheer beauty^B masterpiece, but Lili Kraus, afH presentation • of floral tribut^B persuaded to return and pIlH Schubert songs, in E flat major. • Mr. O. II. Coleman, onhjjH the audience, thanked the ariH the 30,000 Clu,b, which had mifl concert possible. He also tH Mr. J. C. Rich for the loarfl grand piano. Mr. Coleman's® that he hoped the town wcnljH boast a concert grand, dreir® thu^iastic response from 1® Kraus. ■