Brahms the Miniaturist
ON a recent Wednesday evening at 1YA a half-hour programme was given by the Orpheus Group. Brahms was their subject. Brahms the miniaturist. They gave solo and concerted items for voices, and violin and piano. Members of this group have been heard at other tirnes as solo broadcasters, and those other times are the proper moments for writing of their* solo work. As the Orpheus Group they seem determined that we shall be thinking of the composer, not of the soloists. There was a thoughtful commentary, prepared specially for this collection of small items. One feels very warmly towards a band of musicians who will put this amount of care into planning a programme that has a logical and coherent idea behind it. They show an approach to music that is still too rare in concert and radio programmes-a wish to serve the composer by illuminating his various moods and experiments, rather than to serve themselves by dipping here, there
and everywhere to find works which will do honour to their own individual technique.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 10
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177Brahms the Miniaturist New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 354, 5 April 1946, Page 10
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