The daily morning journal and courier., 1898-03-16
ALEXANDER s1LoTrs RECITAL.
A Delightful Performance Before a
 Small Audience.

Small Audience.
 day afternoon by Alexander Siloti, the well known Russian pianist, was at
 tended by an extremely small but ap- preciative audience. Mr. Siloti's repu- tation abroad and in other cities in this country ought to have interested the local musical public to a much greater degree. But the assemblage, If small, represented the best of New Ha- cen's culture and genuine enthusiasm was manifested. The financial results must have been bit disappointing to the promoters of the concert, but their efforts are not the less praiseworthy. The programme opened with HandePs D minor suite. In this and the Daquin Cuckoo which followed both being morceaux a la antique, ,Siloti displayed nice feeling for the severely classical school to which these pieces belong, and the repose and dignity of his manner were refreshing and delight full The Beethoven sonata Op. 109, which followed would not please the purists. It was sympathetic and re- fined interpretation, but the rubato would be criticized in some quarters.
 The second group was made up of the compositions of the young Russian school in which our confreres in other cities have found such delight. The first of the group was Raschmanioff's Prelude Op g. It is a simple melody
 in the minor mode, perhaps folk tune, with an accompaniment of full chords in both hands. It works up to a
 splendid climax and is effective If not Glazonnoff whose name under a diff ferent spelling Cthese are appar ently | indifferent matters with Russian names) appeared for the first time on | New York Philharmonic programme l two weeks ago This was charming etude called La Mutt" and seemed to | be tone picture of the scintillant heavens on clear. cold night. The | third "Peons," op. 2S, was perhaps the
 most interesting of the group, being an 1 effective arrangement of beautiful i fold tune by Arsensky. The fourth
 of the group, also by Arsensky was a
 peculiar bit of melody in quintuple | TYLnHls Ut HUI plONCu bilC iliV9t poPT
 ular of all, Liadoff's Music box" 8 cu-
 rious little imitation whose tinkling | fame had preceded it. This was enthu-
 siastically redemanded The last was a | brilliant paraphrase of two themes from Tschaikowsky's opera "Engeny
 Onegin" This last was dazzling tech
 nical performance. The third group or | the programme consisted of two Cho-
 pin numbers and Liszt's Twelfth Rhap-
 sodie. The Chopin pieces were tAe A
 flat major Ballade and the "left-hand-
 ed" etude No. T, Op. 25. This last proved to many the most enjoyable
 feature of the programme. The tech- nique throughout the programme was faultIess and there was 8 certain
 amount of sentiment, but rather cold l and interpretive In this etude Siloti evnced more temperament than in anything else he played Perhaps he l felt the empty spaces in the house and I could not arouse himself but there | seemed to be a lack of warmth i'll his l playing on the whole. When he built
 up & climax it seemed to be rather d matter of speed and force than q deep, compelling force within the man,
 as an expression of which speed and force should be means toward an end. | It was so in the Liszt rhapsody. At
 the same time the performance was most musicianly and there was an en- tire absence of clap-trap and false sen-
 timentality. After the rhapsody Siloti
 was enthusiastically recalled and he
 played Romance" by Jensen.