Two Voices
HOPIN, like Wordsworth, had two voices. One was of the Paris salons, the other spoke with the breath of his native Poland. The first is to-day the more popular. It is the Chopin of the Waltzes, of many of the Nocturnes, of the Ballades, the Berceuse and the Barcarolle. A song to remember-perhaps. But the song Chopin remembered was "the blank misgivings of a creature moving about in worlds not realised’-the Mazurkas, the Freludes, Polonaises, the "Revolutionary" Study, the B Flat Minor Scherzo. This is vigorous music sometimes, as in the opening of the Scherzo, almost fierce, the masculine Chopin. Will it be remembered when the rest is forgotten? These thoughts were occasioned by Raymond Windsor’s playing of the C Sharp Minor Waltz and the B Flat Minor Scherzo from 2YA. This pianist displayed a maturity of interpretation quite beyond his years (he is, I believe, still in his teens). Apart from some smudged passage work it was very enjoyable music.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 341, 4 January 1946, Page 10
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163Two Voices New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 341, 4 January 1946, Page 10
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