Where Do We Go From Here?
MONG the younger pianists broadcasting regularly, one of the most outstandingly competent is Shirley Craig. Early last year at 2YA she played Bach’s Sixth French Suite in a perfectly unblemished fashion-no mean feat. In December, accompanied by 1YA’s studio orchestra, she played Mozart’s Piano Concerto in A Major with an agility and clarity that could be fully appreciated only by those who have themselves tried to extract ‘swift, delicate music from this studio’s concert grand. Just. recently she has broadcast again from. 1YA, first a Mozart Sonata, then Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, and here, too, the playing was clear, careful and competent. The fact that I can still find no feeling warmer than admiration for her performance suggests to me that it is perhaps’ not easy for a young pianist in this small country to embark on that
stage of experiment, risk and: originality that may be necessary for complete musical development. Miss Craig’s foundations, though, are so surely laid, and her equipment so good, that she would run little danger should she now choose to articulate her phrases less formally, point her rhythm less rigidly, and generally play with more colour and freedom.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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200Where Do We Go From Here? New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 325, 14 September 1945, Page 10
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