"SHEPHERD ON THE ROCK"
Sir.-yYour weekly Radio Viewsreel is futile-even misleading-if it is unauthoritative. The contributors to it are not always well enough acquainted with their subjects. Current comment on 4YA’s recent studio performance of Schubert’s "Shepherd on the Rock" is a case in pofnt. This "novelty, new to most 4YA listeners" (to quote your Viewsreeler) is one of Schubert’s most famous songs. The Elisabeth Schumann-Frederick Kell recording of it has been broadcast frequently, ‘and at least two performances by local artists have been heard within the past year. Schubert’s song is with clarinet obbligato, and to play this on the flute was to change the character of the whole. When a sweeping clarinet phrase was outside the limited range of the flute, it had to be cut in half and transposed, with incongruous effect. Discerning listeners could not, I maintain, have found the ormance "refreshing," "pleasant," or "completely in accordance with the spirit of the work" (to again quote your Viewsreeler), Bad mistakes in time and notation (several in the first 20 -bars) did not improve matters either.
W. ROY
HILL
(Wellington). |
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 521, 17 June 1949, Page 17
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183"SHEPHERD ON THE ROCK" New Zealand Listener, Volume 21, Issue 521, 17 June 1949, Page 17
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