Musica Viva
T is seldom that we get a combination as good as the Musica Viva Society’s chamber players. The only comparisons which suggest themselves are with the Boyd Neel Orchestra and the Queensland State String Quartet. For a first recital from the 4YA studio, the group chose the Brahms Piano Quintet, Op. 34, and this was a performance the like of which has seldom been heard on local stations here. I am sure that many lis- . tening musicians must have felt the urge either to put away their instruments indefinitely or else to redouble their practising efforts. Without the constant stimulus of the best in "live" performances by such groups, local musicmaking sinks into a slough of mediocrity. But listening to a performance like this, (continued on next page)
(continued from previous page) in which cohesion between the performers, subtlety of phrasing and shading, and a loving warmth of tone-col-our are a constant feature of the playing, the listener surely cannot fail to be stirred into emulative activity. Let us hope, for our own sake, that the Musica Viva Society will decide to include New Zealand, and Dunedin also (we do get left out so often, purely through lack of support for visiting musicians), in future | itineraries.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 10
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208Musica Viva New Zealand Listener, Volume 19, Issue 489, 5 November 1948, Page 10
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