Verdi's "Requiem"
AST November, as readers of The Listener will recall, the Palmerston North Vocal Art Society gave the fivst performance in New Zealand of Verdi's great Requiem. The exacting chorus work was rehearsed for more ‘than a year, and besides Kathryn Williams (soprano) and Naomi Eglinton (contralto), well-known Palmerston North singers, two visitors, Dixon Tizard (tenor), of Wanganui, and Stewart Harvey (baritone), of Auckland, were engaged for the solo parts. The need of a large orchestra, including four bassoons and eight trumpets, presented another difficulty, which was overcome by engaging a large section of the National Orchestra of the NZBS, supplemented by local players and by trumpeters of the Wanganui Garrison Band. The work was conducted by F. Wentworth Slater, This performance of Requiem was recorded and broadcast the following day from 2XA, and the recording is now to be heard from other NZBS stations. The first of these broadcasts will be from 1YZ at 3.30 p.m. on Sunday, April 19, and after that it will be heard at roughly
ad weekly intervals from 2XN, 2XG, 3XC and 2XP, and a little later from 2¥Z and 4YZ. ‘Cello Sonatas [ ISTENERS are also to hear from YC and YZ stations during the next two or three months three ’cello sonatas recorded by Gabor Rejto and Yaltah Menuhin (piano), when they were in New Zealand last year. The sonatas are by Valentini, Martinu (Sonata No, 2) and Kodaly (Opus 4). The first of these will be heard from 4YC at 7.0 p.m. on Friday, April 17. Though now an Ameri--can citizen, Gabor Rejto was born in Budapest, where he graduated from the Royal Academy of Music with the highest honours and studied under Pablo Casals. He has given concerts and played with leading orchestras in Europe, and since going to America has been a member of the Lener and Gordon String Quartets. With Roman Totenberg and Adolph Baller he formed the Alma Trio. Gabor Rejto’s recordings include all of the Beethoven ‘cello sonatas. Yaltah Menuhin is, of course, a member of the famous musical family and an inter-nationally-known pianist in her own right.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 17
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352Verdi's "Requiem" New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 717, 10 April 1953, Page 17
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