The Washington times., 1921-11-17

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ment in last Sundays Times of
II reveals some interesting com
PARSONS.
For instance. Rachmaninoff has
played his own 'Polichinelle" making
II brusque scenic work with mel
lowed romance interlude. There is
crude jollity. humor, sentiment and
Z temperament, as the composer pianist
plays 1t. Hofmann has also recorded
TINS Polichinelle," though under his
hsnos II Is not vagrant spirit, but
rather capricious, in lighter fancy, a
reflex OF another imagination.
Legfnska, Of the big crashing chords
mas q great love for melody and caress
ing tones. You may contrast her In q
record OF Rubinstein's Melody in F.
with Joseph Hofmann's playing Of the
same composition.
Or this mystical little artist who
evokes big thunders In truly virile
fashion, may be found rhythmically
seductive in Moszkowski Valse on
one recording piano, and on another
she plays a transcription Of Johann
strauss Blue Danube" with concert
arabesques, as they are called. This
again whets the appetite for COMPARE
sons.
Beauty Of pianism and technical
the fascination lies. is in the differ
er,ces OF ideas in Interpretation.
Artist or Composition
An attractive comparison is that of
Gabrilowitsch with Harold Bauer.
Keeping the spirit of the dance in
mind, we find Bauer playing an Aren-
sky .'Valse" and Gabrilowitsch giving
4 Glazounow ''Gavotte."
These two artists become insepara
bly, associated in the mind because of
their two-piano recitals. Their DIFF
: ferences were radical. in temperament
and in tone.
How do they differ in Chopin, in Schu.
mann? Gabrilowitsch has made rec
ords Of his own compositions. of Schu-
mann and the great Russian Tschai-
kowsky. Bauer has given us the joy.
Gus Schubert, surely composer sym.
pathetic with his own bouyant spirit.
And also he has played one Of those
portraits" out Of Rubinstein's famous
'Kamennoi- Ostrow," with something
Of two Of the three BIS" in Beetho-
have gone outside the artists promised
US this year.
There IL q single instance OF the
playing of Yolanda Nero. that Of the
"Wanderer," a Schubert List tran.
scrfption. In her native music of
Hungary she In said to show a superb
technique when she interprets a List
Hungarian Rhapsody, with that lido.
matte SHIFT Of accent that catches the
nationality Of this music. And Nero
il . newcomer to US this year.
OF Slot and Of Madeleine DuCarp
we have no recorded instances thus
Yet always, in Interpretation, there
is the artist ,instilling new life into
a composition, and the composer bein &
faithfully mirrored by the player.
Interpretation.
Richard Strauss Of the beautiful
songs. meaning the composer who has
In large symphonic mold created the
most iconoclastic music and yet has
written songs whose rhythm and ca.
dence, once caught, remain perman
ent in ones affections - Richard
Strauss comes to us as pianist and
composer this year.
He appears with orchestra in New
York, but the STRAUSS Festival" here
brings the great musician as accom-
PIANIST of his own songs and other
smaller compositions. Here one gets
authentic interpretat tons. One can
find Richard Strauss on the interpret.
ing piano. also.
And that ID what these artists mean
to us, after the glow Of the one great
performance has gone. They arrived
because they have achieved. And we
may have them for our own compan.
ions.
And then the others?
How did the great Busoni play? His
writings are profound. his insight
deep and potent. Yet he has passed
from our stage today and remains
only in record held for our enlighten.
ment as we'll as our enjoyment.
Interpretation? Nature pieces such
as Schumann's Forest Scenes" az
MacDowell's "Sea Pieces" tell a many
toned story to many different people.
Ravel's "Play OF the Water" the
"Jeux d'eau," In recorded for us by
that modern French pianist whom we,
here. do not know, Robert Schmitz.
1t IL he whom our own Katherine Nc
Neal has been assisting. The Eve
ming In Granada" of Debussy la
Soiree dams Granada" Ia a vivid pic.
ture. Hear these interpretations and
YOU will better divine the mystery
that lies in the little round notes on
. staff.
Hear these master.works, these
neutrality-suspicious. soul Of
the composer and the soul Of the ar
tist--as they have been caught and
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