Mountain Music
|? is said that as Beethoven composed his music he sometimes miutteringly paced his room, and I know of one person who said that in a certain portrait Beethoven’s darkened emotions made him look evil. Such was the force in him, such the breadth of his emotional life as expressed in that thunderous music, that both states are in character. How wonderful that he should have put all
this vitality within the framework of a music which translates violence to joy and to compassion. When the storm rages in the mountains there are sequestered gullies where eddies of the larger wind play a kind of counterpoint to wrath. That is ecstasy: the fire of the fanatic balanced by the gentleness of the lover, the tumult of those higher notes pouring over the storm in Beethoven’s Sonata in A Flat. Louis Kentner’s broadcast over 3YC set the mountains rocking in this same piece, and drew from a Christchurch audience prolonged and spontaneous applause. This wonderful knowledge of the right intensity and spacing to give those notes flying above the accompanying bass, was again evident when Mr. Kentner began the first of Chopin’s Four Scherzi, but steeped as I had been in the earlier work Chopin came as an anti-climax.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 10
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209Mountain Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 727, 19 June 1953, Page 10
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