FROM THE UNITED STATES

New Zealand Listener, Volume 15, Issue 389, 6 December 1946, Page 17

FROM THE UNITED STATES

New Classical Programmes

ONCERT ARTISTS YOU MAY NOT HAVE HEARD is the name of a new series of programmes made up by the NZBS from recordings supplied by the United States Office of War Information and its peacetime counterpart the OIC-which stands for the Office. of .International Information on Cultural Affairs of the U.S, State Department. This series has just begun at 1YA Auckland, where the programmes are being heard on Sundays at 3.30 p.m, The first heard last: Sunday featured the pianist Beveridge Webster; and the second, which will be heard this Sunday, December 8, brings you a performance by the ‘cellist, Robert La Marchina, Beveridge Webster (who was born in

Pittsburg) played Schumann’s Piano Concerto in A Minor with the New York Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra; and Robert La Marchina is to be heard in Boccherini’s ’cello Concerto in B Fiat. The recording was made when La Marchina was 16, and the orchestra was the NBC Symphony, conducted by Frank Black. La Marchina is himself a ’cellist from the ranks of the NBC Symphony Orchestra, and this was his first solo performance. In the pause before the second movement, listeners will notice that there was some amusement in the orchestra; it was caused bv the voung

cellist holding up ‘the performance for a mement to take off his coat after a very energetic first movement. Future Programmes In later programmes (at the same time on subsequent Sundays) listeners will hear the following artists: Artur Balsam, pianist (who has accompanied Menuhin in some recordings), playing Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.

2 in B Flat, with the NBC Symphony Orchestra (Frank Black). Mischa Mischakoff, violinist (born in Russia in 1895, and now concert master of the NBC Symphony), playing Wieniawski’s Second Violin Concerto. Joseph Hoffman, pianist (who was described by Saint-Saens as "the greatest wonder of our présent. age"), playing Rubinstein’s Piano Concerto No. 3 in G Major, a work not often heard. The orchestra is the New York Philharmonic, and the conductor Artur Rodzinski. Edward Vito, who is harpist with the NBC Symphony Orchestra, playing a Concerto for harp. and orchestra by the contemporary Russian composer Gliere, with the NBC Symphony under the baton of Frank Black.

Byron Jannes, pianist . (with the same orchestra and conductor), playing Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto. Jannes comes from Pittsburgh, Pa., and was 15 when this performance was recorded. Joseph Schuster (cellist) in Schubert’s ‘Cello Concerto in A Major (originally composed for the now obsolete instrument, the arpeggionen, and transcribed for ’cello by Gaspar Cassado), with the New York Philharmonic, — conducted by Howard Barlow. Hortense iMonath (pianist) in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in C Major, K467, with

the New York Philharmonic under Rodzinski. Miss Monath studied in New York and then with Schnabel in Europe. In 1934 she was chosen by Bruno Walter to play at the Salzburg Festival, and was the first American thus honoured. John. Corigliano (violinist) in Brahms’s Violin Concerto in D Major with the New York Philharmonic (of which he is concert master) under Rodzinski. He is a New Yorker, of Italian parentage, and made his debut in 1919. Eugene Istomin . (pianist) with the same orchestra and conductor, in the Concerto No. 2 in B Flat, by Brahms. Istomin is still in his twenties, and is a pupil of Serkin. And finally, Zino Franciscatti again with the New York Philharmonic, in Paganini’s Violin Concerto in D. Franciscatti is a French violinist. These programmes have been selected by the NZBS -to give listeners the opportunity’ to hear performances which are not available through other record‘ings, and they will later be heard from ‘the other main stations. PER I OL a oe