Lili Kraus
[™ KRAUS opened her New Zealand broadcasts with a Haydn sonata. No fireworks, no eager display of virtuosity, this was music whose greatness lies in its simplicity, its eloquence in direct, unadorned statement. Lili Kraus’s playing is the perfection when creation and re-creation become one. One is not aware of difficulties or even of the overcoming of them; dynamics, tempos, all the inflexions of sound but define the phrasing, and make it a living speech. The Bartok which preceded the Haydn Sonata was excellent programme building. Although 150 years separate the dates of these compositions, they are much akin in thought. Both have their origin in folkmusic. There is little else one can say about Lili Kraus, for the remembrance of the playing is the music itself. Hers is the true art which conceals itself. On the basis of this first broadcast alone I would commit myself to the opinion thet it is a long while since we have had with us such a consummate artist expressing herself through the piano.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 15
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172Lili Kraus New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 366, 28 June 1946, Page 15
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