Notes Like Mice
OUPERIN-LE-GRAND was a great man in his day, and when we settle down, if we ever do, to a simpler quieter life, he may be great again. He was to the harpsichord, you will remember, what Chopin was to the piano. It is time we shelved the idea that, because the piano is the newer instrument, it is therefore to be preferred to the harpsichord. The piano js different, of course; its range of expression may be greater, but with all its versatility it cannot recapture the delicacy, the precise rhythms, the attenuated tone of its elder sister. When Wanda Landowska plays Couperin on thé harpsichord, a world of music is reopened, old stars twinkle anew, music becomes soft as dust, "small notes that run like mice bewitched by light."
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 359, 10 May 1946, Page 15
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133Notes Like Mice New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 359, 10 May 1946, Page 15
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