Contrasts and Rewards
F the broadcast of Bartok’s Second Quartet by the Griller String Quartet, one can only applaud, again, both the performance and the choice. As yet, Bartok may not be everyone’s cup of tea, but at least those who wish to argue about him have increasing opportunities to hear him. In the end, one surely had at least to respect this deeply felt and rather private music. In contrast, the concert relay from 1YC was followed by the excellent recording of the Choros 4 and 7 of Villa~-Lobos-jolly end extravert music, displaying the Brazilian’s flair for odd orchestration, with its horns and trombones, fiute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, © bassoon, violin, ‘cello and gong. In a way, it
served as a transition to the Dvorak ’Cello Concerto which followed, and in whose breadth and openness the balance was restored. There was, perhaps, a real contrast to be felt between the Bartok and the Dvorak-and not merely a contrast of nationalities and periods, but of the two types of artist on whose complementary existences any art/depends, since one speaks for the common man, and one for the uncommon man.
M.K.
J.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 29, Issue 740, 18 September 1953, Page 10
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