MOISEIWITSCH

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 386, 21 June 1928, Page 17

MOISEIWITSCH

SECOND CONCERT TO-MORROW There can be no doubt about the instant appeal to Aucklanders of the pianoforte playing of Benno Moiseiwitsch. He gives his second concert to-night in a programme devised to put the virtuoso of the piano en rapport with his audience from the first bar of Mendelssohn’s Capriccioso to the crashing fortissimo of the Schu-bert-Tansig Marche Militaire. Moiseiwitsch has been called the 20th century Chopin, and it will be a sheer delight to hear his interpretation of the Butterfly, Black Keys and Raindrop studies—all of them different, and all of them amazingly intricate. The Beethoven Moonlight Sonata will be played in all its romance of the first movement, the ecstasy of the allegretto, the passion of the presto, and the wonder and beauty of the grand finale. The felicity of Moiseiwitsch’s finger manipulation is something to admire and to marvel at. He will play, too, a modern Russian piece—Fairy Tale (E minor), by Medtner, a personal friend and compatriot of Moiseiwitsch, which has been aptly described as a story in music; a strange composition by Prokolieff, another modern entitled Suggestions Diaboliques, which speaks for itself; and a perfect facsimile of an old-fashioned musical box, La Tabatiere, in which the metallic sound is cleverly reproduced. The tenderness and ecstasy of Litzt’s Liebesstraum, contrasts with the pomp of Tansig’s arrangement of Schubert’s Marche Militaire. Moiseiwitsch has delighted his audiences everywhere with his exhilarating performance 'of this big work, maintaining its splendid rhythm, and coaxing all its hidden magnificence from the keyboard. The box plans are at Lewis Eady, Ltd.