Tempered Gratitude
DOUBT whether 10.19 p.m. is the best time for a performance of the still relatively unfamiliar Songs and Dances of Death by Moussorgsky, or whether the Schubert Trio in B Flat, | Opus 99, is the most subtly chosen of | items to precede them in 4YC’s late list-_ ening programme of music; but on the principle that ill-placed is better than | unplaced, one must accept what is offered with tempered gratitude. Moussorgsky’s powerful and beautiful song- | cycle forms the setting for four rather | less than cheery songs concerned with | the inevitability of death, exquisitely sung in Russian by Jennie Tourel. One could hear them again, with profit, at not too long an interval-but, one hopes, in the earlier part of the evening when powers | of concentration are less feeble. ‘|
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 11
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130Tempered Gratitude New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 768, 9 April 1954, Page 11
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