Musical Scholarship
HALF-HOUR recital by Hubert Milverton-Carta (fromm 1YC) proved to be one of the listening pleasures of the week, both for material and presentation. Beginning with Caccini’s sad and exquisite "Amarilli," it modulated through a well-known piece by Donaudy and two of Reynaldo Hahn’s settings of Verlaine, to conclude with four pieces from Osma’s Songs Of My Spanish Soil. The programme showed that combination of musical scholarship and sensitivity which we have come to expect from Mr. Mil-verton-Carta, and the sureness with which he enters into the spirit of that which he is singing. The programme was enhanced by his succinct annotations and. expressive reading (in English) of the words of each song; and Elizabeth Page accompanied with complete sympathy and tact. The hearing of the songs by Osma made one wish to renew acquaintance with them; but for one listener at least, the high point of the recital consisted in the two songs by Hahn-the setting of "D’une Prison," which some have preferred even to Fauré’s, and the wonderful purity and melancholy of "L’heure Exquise." :
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 10
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177Musical Scholarship New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 714, 20 March 1953, Page 10
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