Discovering Berlioz
Y the mere fact of its existence and our ifiterest in it, the National Orchestra no doubt leads many people out to explore the new musical world of today typified in part by its Glazounovs and Khachaturians, For others like myself it brings closer contact with well established masters like Berlioz, who was little more than a name to me until I heard "Les Francs Juges" broadcast over 3YC during the last visit of the
orchestra. Coming to the piece unprepared by any line on its content, such as was given by Warwick Braithwaite during the interval, I was astonished by the skill and individual brilliance of the work. After the expressiveness of Beethoven in whom, so often, everything is presséd into the service of the emotions, one became aware of a delight in the capacity of the instruments themselves: the "heavenly harmony" prevailed over all else. There was an interesting use of a swaying rhythm from which small melodies would start up and then return, almost as if the mind at a certain rhythm induced by love or exaltation generated new ideas: a spinning top throwing off everchanging
and allusive forms.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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195Discovering Berlioz New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 733, 31 July 1953, Page 10
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