The Romantic Agony
T is a tribute to the musicianship of that fine Hungarian pianist Bela Siki that when he played the Liszt Sonata in B Minor in New Zealand last year, he made this colossal musical extravaganza both intelligible and plausible. The NZBS took the opportunity to record the sonata while he was here, and I heard it again on Sunday night from 2YC. Bela Siki still gives a superb performancesand_ it is admirably. recorded as well. The sonatayseems to thé at once deplorable and #lorious, an -iinménse sprawling world of heroic and bizarre attitudes, a tender, almost wistful lyricism, the heavy solid trumpeting of triumphant force. Somehow, all these elements can be resolved into a consistent texture, and this is what Bela Siki does. I have heard the work many times, and can say that it has never reached me in quite this way. A kind of glory shines from it in Siki’s reading, and this is, a ably, what Liszt intended, a a a ae
B. E. G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 10
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172The Romantic Agony New Zealand Listener, Volume 32, Issue 822, 29 April 1955, Page 10
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