Repertoire of an Artist
"HERE are many remarkable things about Lili Kraus. Listening to: her first broadcast from 2YA on the Sunday night when she played, for the first time during her tour, the beautiful but little known sonata of Stravinsky, one marvelled at the breadth and extent of her repertoire. The life of a concert artist is an arduous and exacting one, Technique, memory and artistic integrity must be kept at a uniformly high standard, for competition in the concert world is strong and the shafts of criticism keen. If reputation is to be maintained, the executant will limit the season’s playing to the minimum necessary to fill programmes. I remember one pianist who toured New Zealand a few years ago who broadcast the same three programmes (with the same attendant encores) from every city in Australia and the four centres in this country as well. Nothing would tempt him to add the smallest trifle to the list he had allowed himself. Lili Kraus has given us Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Beethoven, Schumann, Chopin, Bartok, and now Stravinsky. She has struck a happy balance between the unfamiliar and the well-loved. Nothing has been repeated but that which should be heard again. To everything she has brought the same spontaneity, the same affectionate understanding.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 14
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214Repertoire of an Artist New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 372, 9 August 1946, Page 14
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