Classical Music
HE time is overdue to draw attention to the consistently high standard of 1YA’s Classical Hour each afternoon from 2.30 to 3.30. I don’t know how wide the audience is for such a programme, but as the only local alternative is the ZB Women’s Hour, I should imagine it has a fair hearing. Although there are a fair number of familiar pieces — Brahms, Beethoven and Schu-bert-the works are not confined to the war-horses, or even to better-known composers; and a week's listening gives a nice balance of old and new. The practice off playing usually only two works gets away from the "bitty" character of the rest of the daytime musical features. I enjoyed recently an hour formed of a Telemann Concerto, a Bach Suite and Couperin’s Pieces en Concert, and on another day the rather piquant coupling of Saint-Saens’s Second Piano Concerto and Sibelius’s First Symphony. When I am able to listen during the day I always look forward to this programme, in which some rays from 1YC momentarily warm the somewhat bleak air of 1YA’s daily musical offerings.
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 10
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184Classical Music New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 761, 19 February 1954, Page 10
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