TRAVELLING IN SOUND IMAGES
MONG the converging mudflats of noise, the YC stations are our best, perhaps our only hope. One night recently 1YC was treasure trove. A triumphant start was made with a lesser-known Beethoven sonata played by Schnabel. But the highlight was Brahms’s Lieberslieder Walzer. These could easily be danced to, but are in reality four part songs, sung by two men and two women, all singers with the highest musical sense. When Hans Hotter is one of the singers, and fhis is Brahms in his airiest mood, you can imagine the quality. The Liebeslieder Walzer are sheer magic. They might easily be Austrian folk tunes: anyhow, Austria is what they conjure up for me. More vividly than pictures, these entrancing tunes bring before my eyes Austria of the highest mountains. Brahms has somehow transported me there and the Schubert Trio, Opus 100, that follows, rounds out the novel experience of travelling in sound images. | have the choice of finishing with Three Cornered Hats from Spain. But the Austrian dream persists, and so the Viennese Schubert concludes
my musical revels.
J.
W.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 28, Issue 720, 1 May 1953, Page 8
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