Remodelled Antiques
"HE cult of the antique extends even to music, and in so far as this may lead to the revival of something genuinely beautiful, it is to be encouraged. When, however, the arranger lights upon something whose beauty lies largely in the mellowness of age and modernising it, still calls it old, the practice is firmly to be squashed, One Sunday recently I missed what may have been an enjoyable piano recital from 3YA by Gwenyth Brown, who was ad-vertised-very modestly-to play some Couperin and Rameau, my attention having been drawn to the bolder notice: "A piano recital of 18th century music by Haagen Holenbergg." This turned out to be a collection of the more objectionable arrangements of the nineteenth century virtuosi-Leschetitzky, Sgambati, SaintSaens; the pieces bore no more than a superficial resemblance to the original. It is true that I ought to have taken warning from the names of the arrangers appearing in the programme but the title "18th century" was misleading, —
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 328, 5 October 1945, Page 9
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165Remodelled Antiques New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 328, 5 October 1945, Page 9
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