Memorable Concert
S soon as the National Orchestra began their first concert.under Nicolai Malko, one knew that one was in for an evening of music. The Beethoven Leonora No. 3 is one of the most played of all orchestral overtures, and we have heard it many times since the Orchestra was founded. But it would seem, last Saturday, that we had never heard some of it before. Dr Malko obtained from the band a tone at once springy and tipe; he made one hear some of the detail in the opening as never before, and the later passages fizzed and crackled with splendid brio. I did not care much for the orchestral arrangement of a fugue from a Beethoven quartet: why? I missed the point. But the Haydn Cello Concerto was marvellous. Guy Fallot is surely one of the finest cellists ever to visit us; the purity of his intonation and his exquisite phrasing had a piercing beauty which stilled the mind. His (continued on next page)
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sister Monique was hardly less impressive in the Ravel G Major Piano Concerto; her playing was beautifully neat, meticulous and. subtle-in the best sense, French. And so to a rousing finish with a suite of Tchaikovski variations. If one has any criticism, it is that this concert offered an embarrassment of riches. Malko and two Fallots: this is more than a feast, it is banquet.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 22
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236Memorable Concert New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 22
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