Old Five Fingers
SY Czerny is often presented, and if one does not advance beyond the first book of his gradus ad parnassum, the name is just. It is Czerny’s centenary this year: he died in 1857, Mr L. D. Austin prepared two programmes with the laudable intention of giving him a perspective in musical history as a key figure between Beethoven, whose star pupil he was, and Liszt, who was his star pupil. The broadcasts did much to substantiate this claim, The programmes were presented as brief biographies with appropriate musical illustrations played by Lola Johnson. The two narrators who read the text gave a rather plummy account of themselves, but Miss Johnson played a wide variety of pieces with great skill. The main interest, musically, of the programmes, was the three late Czerny studies, none inferior to Chopin, and the second glowed with Viennese warmth. They were all brilliantly played. I think the programme could have been better produced, but it was a success, I hope the NZBS will com-
mission more like it.
B. E. G.
M.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 37, Issue 941, 23 August 1957, Page 25
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