ORGAN RECITALS
Sir,-I would like to express appreciation of the Sunday organ recitals from the Wellington Town Hall. We do not hear many classical recordings of the pipe organ, so these recitals -by local artists are all the more welcome. May I, however, make one suggestion. So many of these programmes include items such as a Bach Toccata, but it seems that the art of broadcasting a powerful pipe organ is not yet sufficiently perfected in New Zealand to do justice to these grandiose compositions. Nothjng is more glorious than a toccata heard in a lofty hall, but when it is broadcast, the rapid fingering in the bass and _ the majestic chordal passages lose much of their brilliance, so that the result is often just a confusion of sound, quite bereft of its original splendour. Perhaps it would be better to select compositions more particularly suited to broadcasting. They are legion.
S.E.
P.
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 335, 23 November 1945, Page 25
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154ORGAN RECITALS New Zealand Listener, Volume 13, Issue 335, 23 November 1945, Page 25
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