A Song Cycle
JN her concert appearances Clara Schu"mann had to contend with audiences who were bored at hearing more than one movement of a sonata at a time without the diversion of a couple of songs between the adagio and the presto. Thanks to her pioneering efforts, listeners nowadays demand their sonatas whole, But what can be said for the practice of taking one record out of a song cycle and playing it in the middle of a mixed programme? The listener who likes good singing is usually capable of concentrating on it all evening, if allowed, and doesn’t require any relaxation in the form of interspersed instrumental items. Thanks, then, to 4YA for giving us the song cycle "On Wenlock Edge" in its entirety. How often have we heard a more pppular setting of "Bredon," until we wish the mourning lover would take his grief and his noisy bells as far away from the microphone
as possible; but in this Vaughan Williars setting the words are in their cortect place and perspective, and, since the music is not suitable for lifting out of its context, it has not been done to death by amateur concert artists.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 295, 16 February 1945, Page 9
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198A Song Cycle New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 295, 16 February 1945, Page 9
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