A Real Test
HEN the NZBS decides to broadcast an entire concert by ‘hn artist, as in the case of Lili Kraugs’s recital from the Dunedin Town Hall, no complaints can be made if listeners decide to stay at home instead of patronising the concert. Having decided to be lazy about it, I was admonished for fireside listening by various friends who declared that I would thereby miss half the en-joyment-namely, that intefise psychological effect, akin to musical mesmetism, which this particular artist’s vital personality exercises on her audiences. For me, on the other hand, it is a test of teal worth if the music sounds as. exciting through the non-emotional radio as in the concert hall. Well, Lili Kraus passes this test; her interpretations lose . nothing, to my mind, by being heard in a disembodied medium such as radio or recordings; all the magic remains. The highlight of the programme was the Schubert A Minor Sonata. To New Zealand audiences, fed for yeats on a sonatadiet of almost nothing but Beethoven, Lili Kraws’s inauguration of a Schubert and Mozart revival comes as welcome relief.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 404, 21 March 1947, Page 12
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185A Real Test New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 404, 21 March 1947, Page 12
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