Music for Strings
SOME time ago, the Alex Lindsay String Orchestra presented a series of programmes which paired off the Handel Concerto Grossi, Opus 6, with a modern string work. Now the Orchestra is currently playing from YC stations the twelve Concerti Grossi of Archangelo Corelli (1653-1713), together with six modern string works by overseas composers, and six by New | Zealand composers, some of which are /as yet uncompleted. During this pro- | gramme week, we are to hear on Tues- | day, October 2, the Corelli Concerto No. '3 in A Flat, followed by Theme and Variations "The Four Temperaments," by Hindemith, in which the solo pianist will be Janetta McStay. On Friday, October 5, the Concerto Grossi No.'4 in D will be followed by the Concerto for Oboe and Strings by Gordon Jacob, with Norman Booth as soloist. Corelli was most celebrated in his own way as a virtuoso violinist. Contemporary critics enthused about his beautiful singing tone and the brilliant fire of his interpretations, but he was also acclaimed. as a composer. A contemporary writer, Adami, refers to Corelli as the "chief glory of the age,
with the fame of whose five works, already published, the world is filled; and the sixth, consisting of the concertos, which he is now (1711) preparing for the press, will complete his immortality." And so they did.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 16
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224Music for Strings New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 895, 28 September 1956, Page 16
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