Open-Minded Quartet
N Auckland we have noted gratefully that the almost weekly performance of the NBS String Quartet at 2YA takes place on a Monday night-our own really blank night for classical music. Equally gratefully have we noticed that in spite of their long record of satisfying performance, these four players have not grown so exclusive as some quartets, who are said to regard quintet writing as a regrettable pandering to popular taste, and to resent the entrance of a fifth player who steals their thunder; for last month they admitted Mr. McCaw with his clarinet, and we had Mozart’s Quintet. This moved a little slowly, I thought, particularly in the first movement, but it had that mysterious tension and poise on which much of the excitement of Mozart depends, and this is often lost at a quicker tempo, And to say that we were disappointed when the Cesar Franck piano quintet listed for last Monday did not materialise, is no reflection (continued on next page)
433 ae odin _ from previous page) on the string players, nor on Schubert who was substituted-it is just that we had looked forward to a rich half hour of Dorothy Davies’ playing, for her all too infrequent broadcasts are apt to be given on Sunday afternoons, when we can get little more from 2YA than a dim impression that something delightful is taking place,
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/periodicals/NZLIST19441229.2.12.5
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
230Open-Minded Quartet New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 288, 29 December 1944, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
Material in this publication is protected by copyright.
Are Media Limited has granted permission to the National Library of New Zealand Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa to develop and maintain this content online. You can search, browse, print and download for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Are Media Limited for any other use.
Copyright in the work University Entrance by Janet Frame (credited as J.F., 22 March 1946, page 18), is owned by the Janet Frame Literary Trust. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this article and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the New Zealand Listener. You can search, browse, and print this article for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from the Janet Frame Literary Trust for any other use.
Copyright in the Denis Glover serial Hot Water Sailor published in 1959 is owned by Pia Glover. The National Library has been granted permission to digitise this serial and make it available online as part of this digitised version of the Listener. You can search, browse, and print this serial for research and personal study only. Permission must be obtained from Pia Glover for any other use.
Log in