The Queenslanders
‘THE Queensland State String Quartet gave us some exciting listening lately. The precision of their playing was a joy to hear, and a much needed lesson in what chamber music performance really is. Too many New Zealand musicians feel that it is enough to get together a week or so before a performance to "practise" the work to be played. Chamber music is the "music of friends" and long playing together is necessary to give that feeling of unity which at once distinguishes the musicianly from the merely competent. The masculine power of the Queenslandérs’ playing was their most exhilarating feature, at once their strength and their weakness, giving them tremendous drive in modern works such as_the Sibelius Voces Intimae, but leading them to rather heavy-handed -treatment of Mozart, Their visit was far more than just a pleasure, and the organisations responsible for sponsoring it are to be congratulated. j
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 12
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152The Queenslanders New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 475, 30 July 1948, Page 12
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