New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1898-02-09
MUSIC.
MR.. RUMMEL'S RECITAL.

,-,7 Rummel give Yesterday afternoon n
.,.,er,ne Hall his first recital since his return
49, an absence Of several years In Europe. The
s,,,,on OF his artistic powers was more salts
-. .har tha. which he made at his orchestral
-. ~ the same hall few days ago II showed
CON- no IN some respects a ripper artist than ne
M rhen he closed the las; preceding chapter OF
- sct,vitv IN New-York. some Ave or six years
.. PES development has led him to a more re-
tive ana interpretive style Of performance than
.rseS 70 cultivate; II at times. indeed verges
-, seems somewhat too obviously the product
', calculation and study. But. on the whole. Mr.
nn,,-nel's playing has been refined and meowed
~. ,o,s Of his admirers will be sorry 70 note that
= a, the rough edges have been smoothed away
- ~ the bosterous extravagances pruned
80 without sensible loss of the splendid vrili,y
~. ,srre and comprehensive grasp the power to
.,-s.and and interpret big things in a big way.
49,, have won him admirers even among those
rare most sensible Of disturbing clements in
-. s-ects that most deeply stirred the blood. To
80 hts Is 70 say that the development OF his
s,,o nowers- that concertgcers In this city have
%. =, onportunity of observing steadily advance
n To- ,nc. he FIST appeared here as a young
.,,v wears ago and more-has been carried fur
,oruard Whether II hae been carried in some
.,.,,,ons further than need be a more extended
hearing OF MI I'""i'iie' p'"''"s WI" "eip NAM
clear
...,ous charm has not been 4 conspicuous factor
, ~, Rrmmers playing. II is not now: but II
-, rasteriay II there had 10 him n
,.,.- insight into the poetry of great music. His
-. ,s ssl sometimes harsh; but II is fire.
.u.,,,v clarified and beautihed, shaded and varied
a., ooor than ever before; and In certain passages
vestsrjsy ne attained sinsularly fine effects. In
.hs matter OF technical accuracy he LETT much to
IA desired from time 10 time
TIA centre OF gravity in Mr.. RUNNERS pro-
sra,nn. came at the beginning, in Beethoven's
Sonata Oh 10 and Schumanns Fantasie Op. IT.
tgis performance Of the sonata was one of deep in
sigh: into its purport. In clarity Of exposition. IN
haautifu adjustment and sense OF proportion. IL
Vas beyond reproach. II was product of profound
s,udy. but there also much Of the poetry OF
fhs composition reproduced In II. especially In the
a-jo.o dolente The fugue al the end was played
rot merely in a way 20 disclose It's structural sig
rs music The Schuuann fantasia lie the sort OF
music in which Mr.. Rumme is most thoroughly at
ZONE II = brought out lis masculine side as well
As that richly imaginative strain that makes It's
,i,le peculiarly Apostle. There was something Of
ne tenderness Il The third movement missing
tbere were technical slips sometimes disagreeah!y
orontneni and there was an embarrassing failure
o. memory al critical point but. on the whole. II
was a performance % De highly valued.
Mr. Rurmel also played succession Of shorter
pieces o: which The most interesting were the bar
carolle and two prelules by Chopin and caprice
o "A az intArrnazzO from BrahmS's OPP. rs.