THE TRIO AT 3YA

Radio Record, Volume I, Issue 21, 9 December 1927, Page 15

THE TRIO AT 3YA

FINE PROGRAMME NEXT WEEK. Arensky wrote two beautiful trios. The one to be played during next week by the Christchurch Broadcasting Trio is the better known one of the two, and is so universally liked as to be almost classed as popular music. Arensky belonged to a group of modern Russian composers which coustituted the leading school of modern composition at the latter end of the nineteenth century. His music abounds in a wealth of melody and richness of harmonisation. ‘The first movement is full of warm feeling and delicate fancy, while the brilliant second movement will always appeal by its very vivaciousness. The beautifut third movement, which is headed by the composer ‘"Elegica," is consideded by many to be the gem of the whole trio. Beautiful and sorrowful as the music is, it is untinged with morbidity. The last movement is full of power and vigour. Among other interesting numbers to. be played by the Christchurch Broadcasting Trio is a dance from Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite. It is the dainty dance of Anitra, the Bedouin’s slender daughter, most charming in invention and tinted with the art of a magician in tonal colours. The "Serenata" of Mozkowski is one of the prettiest of modern pieces. It is just what a serenade should be likea light, graceful melody, over an accompaniment that might be chords on a guitar; an intervening part that sounds like an improvisation of the moment-a gliding back to the original melody, which gradually dies away as if serenaders were departing through the night. Other popular numbers will be Lemare’s "Andantino," arranged by Gustav Holst, ‘‘Melodie Mignenne,’? by Sinding, a brilliant ‘Bolero’? by Ravina, the well-known ‘Valse’? by Rebikon, and Becthoven’s "Minuet in G." Miss Jrene Morris (violinist) will play a mazurka by Hans Sitt and the ever-popular "Swing Song" by Ethel Barns. Miss Eileen Warren is to play severa: pianoforte soli, including "Waltz in D Flat," by Dvorak and "Romance in F Sharp" by Schumann. Mr. Harold Beck’s ’cello solos will be the French composer Faure’s "Apres nn Reve" and a Serenade by Popper, which is considered as one of the best compositions of this brilliant writer for the cello.