PRESENT DAY PIANISTS

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 990, 5 June 1930, Page 16

PRESENT DAY PIANISTS

LECTURE-RECITAL An interesting lecture on presentday pianists was given by Mr. Karl Atkinson to members o£ the Auckland Piano Students’ Association on Monday evening, at the Howie gramophone salon, The following records were used: "Prelude and Fugue No. 1 in C Major" (Bach), Harriet Cohen; "Turkish March,” from “Ruins of Athens” (Beethoven), Josef Hofman; "Rosamunde,” ballet music (Schubert), Myra Hess; “Polonaise Op. 40, No. 1” (Chopin), Ethel Leginska; a diversion, "Tinkering with ‘Home, Sweet Home’, ” Herschel Henler; Sonata in B Minor,” fourth movement, (Chopin), Percy Grainger; “Rondo Capriccioso” (Mendelssohn), Leopold Godowsky; “Dance of the Gnomes” (Liszt), Emil Sauer; "Hungarian Rhapsody No. 12 in C Sharp Minor,” part 2 (Liszt). Irene Scharrer; “Concerto in A Minor, Op. 54” (Schumann), third movement, “Allegro Vivace,” pts. 6,7, 8, Fanny Davies and Royal Philharmonic Orchestra; “Staccato Etude” (Rubinstein), Mischa Levitzki; “Concerto in A Minor” (Greig),, “Allegro Molto Moderato,” pts. 1,2, Ignaz Friedman, with orchestra; "Naila Waltz” (Delibes-Dohnanyi), Wilhelm Backhaus; (a) “Flirtations in a Chinese Garden,” (b) “Rush Hour in HongKong” (Chasins), Benno Moiseivitch: “Dance Negre” (Cyril Scott), Cyril Scott; “God Save the King.”