The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-12-17
EXCELLENT CHAMBER MUSIC.
THE SECOND CONCERT or THE
kNEISEL QUARTET.
Compositions or schubert. Richard Strauss
and Haydn Form the Programme
Frederic LamOnd, the Scotch
Pianist, q Good Ensemble Player.


The Kneisel Quartet and it's weather
came to town yesterday. This Kneisel
weather is becoming an old story and a
pretty tiresome one. In all probability
il does not tire any one else quite so much
as II does the quartet, whose members
must be exceedingly weary of the struggle
to play in tune in spite of catgut which will
grow moist and sag. Yet - far as the pc
cuniary issues are concerned the four gen
tlemen from Boston have no cause for COM
plant. Jupiter Pluvius cannot wash out
a subscription paid in before the concerts
began Neither can his most ingenious
efforts prevent what Dickens would have
described as a carriage audience from
reaching the place OF entertainment.
The second concert OF the quartet's
eleventh season In this city took place at
Mendelssohn Hall last night. The pro-
gramme was one Of captivating interest
II began with Schubert's A minor quartet
opus 90 and ended with Haydn's quartet in
ID minor, opus 20, No. 2. Sandwiched be-
tween these two numbers was Richard
Strauss's sonata in f fiat for piano and
violin, opus ls This work afforded the
relief demanded by the simple music Of
the other two and provided that note Of
contemporaneous human interest without
which chamber music program me in these
days is not regarded as well proportional
Schubert's A minor quartet has not been
heard here lately. Therefore II was ju-
dio;o,s !, Nr Kn.isol 70 br;r, I, torword
7, ,,.a. ,ha aa,>asar,s a;ah,oa,,, ~
o So =,
IN the quartet form ana was written IN
the year 1924, II was published in 1925.
Ira author made two other otlartets in
a.. -, 80 h,,, ,ha,, sbo,, H., -,
VIC n''''o !oai' pu' ~ en-" '"o ue
OF MS cohlradeshlp with three members
OF the famous Rassomouhsky Quartet.
for which Beet hoven wrote his famous
compo.itions. while this one points toward
a visit to the home of tho fsterhazvs at
Is.le-z
I'M. influences of this visit NAV be found
ia ina hungarian tandenci.s in tho com,
po.i,ion. oxemplited in th,. dance thought
nr rho third movement aud in the march
of the fourth Ingenious commentators
hava ,,,ad Il, ,bn sacond r,ovament tho
"mrloxms,t ~ n thena ,,sed in tba Rosa
m,Ird,,' entriacfe music and in the third
n;ano ip,nrountu I'M as II annaar. In The
pm aG HIS tbema ia" ia cbarmng(v nrod;ead
80 tba, there il resemblance I'M not ren.a,
II, io, otbsr com nan,ators baya dsoIarad
that This cornnosition il the mos, character
-, c nrodnct Ion of any comnoser and his
sta,sment NAV PASS without challenge
/, ia safa TO .av thai any experienced Ia
toner TO music would without hooking AZ a
nrngramme identify this quartet a. Scbu.
bari
/, il n lovely marital, clear in form.
h.au,ifuiIv wri;,enn Tor all Tho ;,strunents
"a A. m.loJo,s ,brnuabo,, a. ono ~ ~
cnmnnsar's mineral .ongs To listen 10
sunh m,,sic - "a easv as ~ look a. a
Shatssnearaan drama n tbese days of
s,rai,;na af,er renondi,e idsas and suitletv
,rnnlia he r,;nd 81 q cb;Id as, niobt's
and;onoe IiLed !, ,riebtiiy and snnla,,ded
,h., ,,.rtor,nano, - i, ,,;;h r,roh nraui,oI
,in, '''"'''0 VI ~ WIN '''''" '''p''"
''V Tho Strauss sonata IA ono % ~. sarvsr
~ - e. ~ 80 I, W ,,bI;sbad a.