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FTER a gap of some years I heard Schubert’s "Tragic" Symphony from 1YX the other night and from 2YA three days later. For me it has the same indelible familiarity that surrounds "The Slave’s Dream," the first declension, "Morte d’Arthur," and other things that were learnt in adolescence and therefore stick with greater persistence than any-~ thing acquired later. In those days if we becatne acquainted with symphonies at all, it was by the method of piano duet -great fun for the two people cone cerned and sheer purgatory for everyone else within earshot. Now we turn a
knob, sit back with a full orchestral score and knowledge comes more slowly, in a panoramic perspective, but it is somehow less a personal possession. Beethoven’s first five symphonies will nevet dig themselves into me so ¢ompletely as the last four, because in the days of our duets we owned Vol. 2 but not Vol. 1. Nobody can pretend that such duets ate a pleasant noise, but 20 years ago the alternative was silence; now that their alternative is the broadcast recording of a first-rate orchestra it is harder to determine their worth. .
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 10
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195Arranged for Four Hands New Zealand Listener, Volume 12, Issue 302, 6 April 1945, Page 10
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