Au Revoir
ILI KRAUS. has left us after her brief tour, and I am sure that many of us are grateful for hearing her again. She gave four broadcasts and I heard them all. In a Schumann-Brahms programme, she gave a wonderfully free, soaring account of the Schumann Papillons, but her versions of two Brahms Rhapsodies did not increase my affection for these lumpy, gawky pieces, so ungratefully laid out for the piano; why pianists bother with them, I cannot fathom. Lili’s enthusiastic playing of them fused them into that dark-brown sludge that, it seems, only Julius Katchem can clear. But her Haydn broadcast was a joy, beautifully light and witty, and her playing of the Beethoven, Op. 109, far the finest reading of this amazing work that I ever remember. The theme was beautifully stated, and the slow fragmenting of the sound into ever more aerial modes was a triumph of intellect and feeling. It is good to knéw that when she returns in 1959 she will stay for some time, and I can only say that she will find these shores always hospitable to her fine
artistry,
B.E.G.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 23
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191Au Revoir New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 939, 9 August 1957, Page 23
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