At the Keyboard
AY idea of a radio critic’s paradise is to find myself by chance absorbed in a programme. This is what happened on a recent Sunday when, from 3YC, I heard a piece of music played on something like a harpsichord. On checking with The Listener I discovered that the instrument was like a harpsichord; was, in fact, a piano. It was the unique quality of the touch which had deceived me. The music was "Theme and Variations on an Arab Air,’ and the player was again Ernest Jenner: this being the second time my attention has been in‘advertently captured by his playing. Just as a recorder can sound like a penny whistle or breath of the soul itself, depending upon the knowledge and mastery of he who plays it, so too the piano responds to the man at the keyboard. If I cannot describe the precision and delicacy of Kouguell’s air, this was because it was shortly overlaid by Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, played by the Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. This was so alive and sinuous, so consistently rich in timbre, and so precisely disciplined, that I iistened and marvelied, marvelled and listened till the deeper music’of winter
came to an end.
Westcliff
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 10
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205At the Keyboard New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 762, 26 February 1954, Page 10
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