MUSICA VIVA AGAIN
Second Tour by
Sydney
Musicans
EN the Sydney Musica Viva Society’s . Chamber Players visited New Zealand last year, chamber music enthusiasts throughout the country were impressed by the high standard of their playing. This month the group will arrive here on a second visit, and they will be heard in a series of 13 broadcasts from several of the main National stations during May, June, and July. Some’ of the broadcasts will be studio recitals, and the others will be relays of portions of the public concerts they will give in the towns they visit. The first broadcast will be from 1YA at 8.5 p.m. on Sunday, May 22, when the players will perform from the studio Bloch’s Piano Quintet, and the Adagio from Prokofieff’s String Quartet No. 2. The Sydney Musica Viva Society was founded by Richard Goldner, a viola player who was a member of the original Musica Viva organisation in Vienna. a a
The Sydney society came into existence in 1945, but its permanent string quartet was not formed until 1947. The leader of the Quartet is Robert Pikler, and the second violinist Edward Cockman. Goldner is of course the viola player, the ’cellist is Theo Salzman, while the Australian’ pianist Maureen Jones completes the quintet of players. All five are musicians of outstanding ability, and they take painstaking care with their performances. It is said that they will not perform any work without preparation of at least 80 hours. Amongst the works which will be included in the repertoire for their 1949 New Zealand tour are Debussy’s Sonata for Violin and Piano, Brahms’s Piano Trio No. 1 in B Major, Haydn’s Piano Trio in G Major (the "Hungarian’"), his String Quartet, Op. 76, No. 1, and Tchaikovski’s Piano Trio, Op. 50. Chamber music by Bartok, Borodin, and | Schubert will also be played, and a generous selection of Beethoven includes the String Quartets, Op. 74 (the "Harp"), Op. 59, No. 1, Op. 131, Op. 132, and Op. 18, Nos. 2 and 4, The Piano and ’Cello Sonata in" G Minor, and the String Trio in E Flat Major complete the repertoire. Dates of all their broadcasts after the initial one from 1YA are: 2YA, Sunday, June 5, and Tuesday, June 7; 2XN, Friday, June 10; 2YA, Wednesday, June 22: 3YA, Friday, June 24; 4YA, Tuesday, June 28, and Thursday, June 30; 3YA, Friday, July 1; 2YA, Sunday, July 3;:2YA, Wednesday, July 6; 2YZ, Sunday, July 10; 1YA, Wednesday, July 13.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 517, 20 May 1949, Page 13
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416MUSICA VIVA AGAIN New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 517, 20 May 1949, Page 13
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