Contemporaries Well Chosen
EYBOARD music by Couperin and songs by Purcell made up the very successful first of three Wednesday evening programmes presented from 1YA studio by Owen Jensen and Olga Burton. For me this was a particularly enjoyable programme-partly, I must confess, because I had the feeling that much thoughtful and devoted care had gone into its preparation. By this I do not mean merely that hard work had been put into the actual preparation of the works presented (there are plenty of broadcasts that wear a _ well-practised air) but also that those works had been well chosen to illustrate the theme of a series dealing with pairs of composers who were contemporaries. As to the actual performance, Owen Jensen brings something very appealing to his piano translation of Couperin’s talkative and allusive harpsichord; and Olga Burton’s voice, with its boy-soprano quality, seems especially well suited to these clear songs of Purcell.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 392, 27 December 1946, Page 12
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153Contemporaries Well Chosen New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 392, 27 December 1946, Page 12
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