"The Poet's Love"
SCHUMANN’S Dichterliebe (The Poet’s Love) in 2YA’s new series of song cycles was sung by Owen Bonifant, with Haydn Rodway at the piano. The Poet’s Love is no mere string of songs. It is a full-grown work of art of mature integrity, and it stands out from music that is full of virtues peculiar to a period, a country or an artistic movement. Its virtues are peculiar to the main stream of music. Therefore it requires a very great deal of its executants-more, perhaps, for the fullest interpretation, than any male singer we have is capable of. But Mr. Bonifant did exceedingly well. It was something to be unaware of strain towards the end of 30 minutes’ singing, which is after all not in the day’s work to a New Zealand singer. If one found his approach to some of the songs a little sentimental, that was perhaps only one’s own viewpoint. If he seemed to bump from accent to accent in the second-to-last song without keeping the shape of the whole phrase intact, that was not necessarily a permanent trouble. The translations were unsatisfactory. It is hard to believe in a translater who writes "broke his heart so true" when the literal translation fits and rhymes pers fectly: "broke his heart in two." Mr, Rodway did a fine job with the accompaniments. —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 317, 20 July 1945, Page 17
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226"The Poet's Love" New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 317, 20 July 1945, Page 17
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