Half Way House
URING 1ZM’s orchestral hour the other evening I heard a record which was new to me. On one gide of it was a highly concentrated version of Tchaikovski’s first piano concerto, and on the other some highlights from Grieg’s piano concerto, first movement. Under new names and with their fine tunes clothed in words, both these concertos have lately fought their way into popular sessions and there established themselves with great success, I take it that the purpose
of this new record is to show that the heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, and that it is advisable to become used, first of all, to "Concerto for Two" then to take a slightly stronger dose of the same mixture with voice and words eliminated, thence working up to a point where one can tolerate Horowitz playing the whole thing. And likewise, in a contrary direction, if one’s opportunities for listening are greater than one’s resolution in switching off when a work becomes a little stale; if one does not wish at the moment to sit through the whole of the Grieg or the Tchaikowski, but is glad to be reminded briefly of their glamour, here is the answer. A very useful recording, whether one happens to be coming or going.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 350, 8 March 1946, Page 13
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220Half Way House New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 350, 8 March 1946, Page 13
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