New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-03-04
KNEISEL QUARTET
In BACH CONCERTO
Fifth Subscription Concert at
AeOlian Hall Produces
Delightful Music.
BY ". r. kRLHBIEL.

The kneisel Quartet gave its fifth sub
scription concert of this season at Aeolan
Hall last night The most interesting feat
ure Of It's programme, because it was at
once the oldest and newest Of It's numbers.
was a concerto for solo violin, with two
flutes added 10 the customary accompany
ing orchestra Of Bach's day. This Or
chestra always included a part. never
written out. but left largely TO the In
genuity OF the PLAYER on the harpsichord.
and this part, written out i'm full in defer
once to modern pianoforte performers was
played by Mr.. Clarence Adler, who Gas on
an earlier occasion) showed most admir-
able taste and discrimination In treating
his part as It ought TO be treated. and not
striving for dominant position in the
music The concerto is I'm G major and
not familiar pabulum to the consumers
Of the classics Of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries Mr. Kneisel brought
Il forward at the first concert of the So
ciety OF the Friends Of Music last Deem
Der. II was probably as interesting then
as 4. was last night, but it was heard
with more dignity and respect on the sec
ond occasion The better the music as
true art the less does II gain by being
listened to among halfway sympathetic
listeners sitting OH gilded chairs In an
uncongenlal room. The better il is the
more ought to be appreciated that angelic
wedlock" between performers and listen
beautifully. and which Is essential to
the performance and enjoyment OF cham
Der music-riuSicd al camera, music go
beautiful that intimacy is necessary TO its
performance and its understanding as we'll
as its appreciation
Last night nothing was wanting for its
perfect enjoyment The music was trans
cendantly admirable. the work OF the
PLAYERS beyond criticism. and the listen
ers (as We have often said before, the
fine flower OF our musical public Mr..
Kneisel prepared the work for perform
ancs last summer. Thinking II necessary
(Which We do noD 10 forego the assistance
of the harpsichord. he used the plano
forte, and in its part had the help or
Bach himself who arranged the same
concerto for harpsichord and orchestra
The arrangement oHeIeu All oppci eu"i'5
which IL would have been foolish TO neg
lect. inasmuch az it suggested many ideas
for the filling out Of parts so frequently
skeletonized by the composer; but IT re-
mains 10 the credit OF Mr. knelsel that
he succeeded i'm keeping so well balanced
and euphonious n body OF tone, that one
can but believe that II was thus the
music sounded to the ears OF the connois-
seurs who listened TO II in the salons OF
the Grand Duke OF Brandenburg, for
whom Bach wrote nearly all OF his purely
orchestral music.
AS for the performance, II was Wha'
might have been expected from Mr.. hnel-
sel-a model OF style and taste from
musical point OF view and an aesthetic DE
light His helpers were William kincaid
and G. Possell (fiutes), NJ. Adler 'piano-
forte,. Samuel Gardner, Elias Breskln
and sascha jacobson (violnsl. ana Luu-
Mandy double bass The other numpeIS
Of the programme were schuberts post
bunous Quartet I'm d minor lone or the
r.ver dimmed gems in the kneisei treas
,rv and Brahmss Sextet in b nat Tor
.,r;nes on. 1s. in which the quartet hau
~. helm OF Josef Kovarik, viola ana
Ludwig Mandy, double bass