Late Night Bonus
| GET quite as much delight out of coming across a first-class unscheduled radio feature as of hitting upon a really good book by an unsung author. This is one of the bonuses for the well-be-haved listener which add spice to listening, and make me not want every single radio item always specified in The Listener. Last Sunday night, at the end of the excellent Siobhan McKenna version of Saint Joan, in praise of which I can only echo words already uttered by another reviewer on this page, 1ZB gave us a most interesting, unscheduled talk by the celebrated musician, Dennis Matthews on Liszt’s arrangements of Beethoven symphonies for piano, followed by a recording of Ronald Smith playing Liszt’s version of the Fifth, Although, like Saint Joan, I shall probably be handed over to the secular arm for saying so, I found this piano arrangement a welcome change from the oh-so-often-heard orchestral version. What a musician Liszt was! His craftsmanship and Poeal reverence for Beethoven, even if "strangely expressed to modern taste, were -evident'in the whole work, and, if challenged as to why he had to make the arrangement, he could surely have replied in Shaw’s words when asked why he had selected Joan as a subject: "To prevent someone worse doing it."
J.C.
R.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1054, 6 November 1959, Page 16
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217Late Night Bonus New Zealand Listener, Volume 41, Issue 1054, 6 November 1959, Page 16
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