Explaining the Romantics
ROM 4YA recently Koa Nees has been giving recitals of Chopin Etudes, working systematically through them and omitting none. With the interesting performances given by Mrs. Nees this has’ been an exciting series, and it might well be extended to include other artists, other instruments, and other groups of compositions, The Chopin studies were prefaced by the announcer with a deal of unnecessary explanation regarding technical details and literary emotions which have been associated with them by the composer, his friends, and succeeding generations of romantics. It is not a great help to append an emotional description to a piece which the composer thought fit to designate merely by an opus number. A mistake in the opposite direction was made by the same station on a recent Sunday, when Myra Hess’ recording of Schumann’s "Carnaval" Suite was played with no preliminary announcement save the title. This is programme music in a very definite sense, and Schumann himself labelled the movements with precise literary descriptions, "March of the Davidsbundler Against the Philistines," "Harlequin," "Chopin," "Paganini," and so On, It is these titles which lend the work its unique character, and to omit to mention them is as bad as it would be for The Listener to print its page of photographs of People in the Programmes without mentioning who any of them are.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 9
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225Explaining the Romantics New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 315, 6 July 1945, Page 9
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