VIOLINIST INTO VIOLIST
ROBERT PIKLER, well known to musical audiences as a violinist, will shortly begin his fifth tour of New Zealand, this time with the viola. Formerly leader of the Musica Viva Chamber Players, Mr. Pikler exchanged the violin for the viola in 1951. Since then he has been principal violist in the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. In the course of a concentrated 18-day tour Robert Pikler will appear twice with the National Orchestra, and, together with the pianist Owen Jensen, will give five public recitals and six studio broadcasts. At the first National Orchestra subscription concert in Wellington on April 14, Mr. Pikler will perform the. Concerto arranged by Lionel Tertis from Haydn’s Concerto for ’Cello and Orchestra. This work has been described as "the essence of the 18th Century; not dispassionate, but tfanscending passion; decorative, but something more than superficial; often vivacious, but never unrestrained." It is largely in the style of the modern instrumental concerto, but retains elements of the older concerto grosso. At Auckland’s first orchestral concert of the new season, on April 21, Mr. Pikler will perform Bartok’s Concerto. This was originally’ commissioned by William Primrose, the celebrated Scottish violist, and was considered by Bar-
tok himself to be a virtuoso work. Before the work was completed, Bartok died, leaving "a mass of tangled sketches" which it remained for Tibor Serly to piece together. The concerto is said to contain a note of despondency and of renunciation which may indicate that Bartok knew it to be his swan-song. Other major works Mr. Pikler will perform during his tour are Hindemith’s Violin Sonata; Delius’s Sonata No.:2 for
Violin and Piano, arranged for Viola by Tertis, and Brahms’s Sonata in F Minor, a clarinet sonata which Brahms himself arranged for viola. Mr. Pikler’s tour, which was arranged by the N.Z, Federation of Chamber Music Societies in collaboration with the NZBS, will include recitals at Hamilton on April 18, Wellington on April 23, Solway College, Masterton, on April 24, Christchurch on April 27 and Nelson on April 30. There will be studio broadcasts from 1XH on Apri] 19, 1YC on April 20, 2YC on April 22 and 25, 3YC on April 28 and 1XN on May 1.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 7
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