End of a Series
QWEN JENSEN’S Mozart bicentenaty progfammes came to an end last week. Let me say that this series seems to mé the most ambitious and successful that we have ever heard on New Zealand radio, I did not hear them all (did anyone?), but I must have heard a dozen or more, and each one
was a pleasure, informed by Mr. jensen’s wise, scholarly, yet never pedantic adumbrations. The whole range of Mozart’s vast output was explored, his piano music exhaustively, I would think, and Mr. Jensen wisely chose to give us the lighter, more vial man of the divertimenti and occasional pieces, as well as the great master of symphony and opeta. The highest tribute I can pay to Mr. Jensen was that Mozart, the man, lived very vividly and loveably in these programmes. I thought the most original contribution to the seties Antony Alpers’s three taiks of Mozart as Novelist; he brilliantly sustained this
startling thesis) on Mozart as a delineator of character in his operas, in a mode quite as large as the Shakespearian, and the examples were illuminating, and entirely convincing. The NZBS may be justly proud of their handsome celebration of Europe’s greatest composer.
B.E.G
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 18
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204End of a Series New Zealand Listener, Volume 35, Issue 901, 9 November 1956, Page 18
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