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Musical Courier 1894-02-14: Vol 28 Iss 727, 1894
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1being the change from a short dress to the regulation violinistic costume and short sleeves.
3Miss Panteo does a lot of violent scraping, but she is very far from being a finished performer, as she is not yet imbued with the classical spirit essentially necessary when performing such works as Beethoven's A minor sonata op. 23.
5She also ventured to play Wieniawski's violin concerto No. 2, and in this she was a little more successful, although altogether it was a very feeble specimen of an amateurish performance.
7Why such fiddlers like Panteo and a dozen more are let loose on an unsuspecting public is more than I can understand or explain.
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11Richard Epstein gave his first recital on Wednesday, January 17, and faced a large, distinguished and friendly disposed audience.
13Lily von Weil (soprano) and Arnold Rosé assisted. Mr. Epstein came out of the fray triumphant, and scored a genuine and brilliant success. The program was opened with a fine performance of Beethoven's G major sonata, op. 96, in which Epstein was ably assisted by Concertmaster Rosé. His solos were Brahms' variations and fugue on a theme by Händel, which were played with great virtuosity and brilliancy; then came some smaller pieces by Schubert, Chopin, Rubinstein and Schytte, all of which gave the concert giver ample opportunity to distinguish himself and show off his beautiful velvety touch and his ease of execution.
15Miss Weil sang songs by Rubinstein, Brahms, Bizet and Tosti, suffering at first from apparent nervousness, but doing herself full justice as she threw off this feeling.
17It is needless to say that Epstein was the object of enthusiastic ovations, and he may certainly look back upon this, his first concert, as a brilliant opening of a career, for the success of which I wish him all that is good.
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21Miss Minny Cortese, a young American lady, possessing a beautiful contralto voice, appeared in a recital last Friday, and was well received.
23She knows how to use her voice, sings with great taste and enunciates distinctly.
25Miss Cortese is a pupil of the well-known Italian singing teacher Mancio, and in her concert showed that with a little more experience and industry she ought to become an artist of distinction, and one of whom her teacher should feel proud.
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29Dr. Raoul Walter, the young tenor of the Munich Opera and a son of Gustav Walter, will appear in some of his best rôles at the Imperial Opera next month.
31The next novelty of the opera will be Smetana's "Kuss," which, however, will not be ready for production before the beginning of March.
33Theodor Reichmann will be heard in Munich, Bremen and Düsseldorf in March, during which month he enjoys a vacation, which will not be granted him next season, as Jahn does not wish his pet baritone to be heard anywhere else outside of Vienna except in Bayreuth, where Reichmann will sing next summer.
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37David Popper, Franz Ondricek and Anton Door will give a series of chamber music concerts in the beginning of next month, during which time probably four recitals will take place. The programs will consist of compositions by Brahms, Goldmark, Dvorák, Schubert, Schuman, Mozart and Beethoven.
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41Sigfried Wagner has been engaged to conduct a Philharmonic concert in Copenhagen, January 28, which the late Tschaikowsky was to have directed.
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45On the anniversary day of Wagner's death, February 13, there will be a performance of "Walküre," with Januschowsky, Winkelmann, Reichmann and Grengg in the principal parts.
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49Arnold Rosé has been invited by Cosima Wagner to lead the orchestra during the season in Bayreuth next summer. This is the fourth time that Mr. Rosé has been asked to occupy the position of concert master.
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53The sixth Philharmonic concert on Sunday, January 28, brings the following program, Mozart: Symphony, B flat major (Köchel 319), first performance at these concerts; Bizet: "L'Arlésienne suite; Haydn: Symphony E flat major, No. 1; Berlioz: "Roman Carnival Overture.
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57The Hellmesberger Quartet will give two extra chamber-music soirées, the first of which takes place January 31, and the programme consists of works (novelties) performed for the first time in public. Adolf Barjansky, of Odessa, will be the pianist on this occasion.
59RUDOLF KING.
61Rubinstein.—Rubinstein's oratorio "Christ," in seven parts, with prologue and epilogue, will be performed for the first time at Breslau under his own direction.
63ticed among her audience, which I am sorry to say was not a very large one, many professional singers, and they evidently were agreed on the point that they had learned something and had not come in vain, for they were among the most hearty and sincere applauers.
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67On the same evening Florian Zajic, the violinist, and Heinrich Gruenfeld, the violoncellist, gave their second subscription concert at the Singakademie, which for the above reason I could not attend. The Viennese pianist, Alfred Gruenfeld, was one of the extra attractions of the occasion, and besides participating in the performance of the Schumann quintet gave as solo numbers Leschetizki's "Siciliana all'antica," Schubert's G major impromptu and some of his own "Hungarian Dances" transcriptions. Miss Julia Mueller-Hartung, from Weimar, was the vocal soloist and sang lieder by Sommer, Moszkowski, Müller-Hartung, Lassen, Henschel and Schmidt. You may remember her somewhat dry but not unpleasing mezzo voice and her by no means spontaneous but scholarly manner of singing from her concert appearances in New York and environments two or three years ago. Heinrich Gruenfeld played two movements (not the first) from a Boccherini 'cello sonata, and Florian Zajic the adagio and fugue in G minor for violin by Bach.
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71Moriz Rosenthal, who was received here so well last season, is not treating Berlin over generously this season. The only recital which he is vouchsafing us this winter took place at the Singakademie last Thursday night, and it goes almost without saying that his multitudinous admirers availed themselves of this single opportunity (except his appearance as soloist at the next Philharmonic concert) with so much avidity that the hall was filled to its full capacity, including podium, gallery, boxes and all.
73Rosenthal had nothing new to play for them, however, barring two little virtuoso pieces by his friend Ed. Poldini, of Vienna, and it seemed unnecessary, as the public was equally willing to listen to and go wild over the same works that they had heard last season. The program was, moreover a well selected one and contained some of Rosenthal's most effective battle horses.
75Among the latter I do not count Beethoven's last sonata (the C minor, op. 111) especially, but still he plays the first movement with a great deal of vigor and some of the variations of the adagio with considerable charm. His second group embraced a very pretty vivace by Dominico Scarlatti, a Padre Martini gavot and Brahms' "Paganini" variations in A minor, op. 35. These seemed to me the best performed numbers on the program, and especially the "Paganini" variations I never heard more brilliantly played by the great virtuoso than on this occasion.
77The third group consisted of the nocturne in F sharp and the scherzo in B flat minor, by Chopin; the now well-known Rosenthal arrangement as a concert study of Chopin's D flat waltz; Paff's "La Fileuse," and the two aforementioned Poldini pieces. In private Mr. Rosenthal played for me some very much prettier and more poetic works by the same young composer than this "Frühlingswehen" and "Johannisnacht," which, despite their suggestive titles, turned out to be only very difficult and very effective virtuoso pieces pures et simples.
79The second "Hungarian Rhapsody" was the last number of the evening, and after it the usual scenes were enacted. Rosenthal was hurrahd, cheered, called out again and again; played one encore, and after retiring was called out again, was bodily forced to sit down and perform his Vienna waltzes arrangement before the public allowed him to withdraw for the evening.
81Rosenthal's success here with the public was equally as great as that of last year, but part of the press "goes for him" rather severely, and as I think more so than he deserves. However, Niemand kann es allen Leuten recht machen!
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85A concert in the early part of Friday evening at Bechstein Hall was not of great consequence. Miss Rosa Kahlig, a mezzo from Vienna, is not a great singer in any sense, and why she should give two soirées here I don't know. Her assistant was Mr. Rudolph Lentz, a young violinist and pupil of Joachim, who essayed to play the "Devil's Trill" sonata by Tartini, and showed that he has much to learn in every respect before he should again attempt to appear in public. He is, however, by no means without talent.
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89On the same evening at the Philharmonie a concert was given for a laudable charity, the principal feature of which (concert, not charity) was the appearance of Carl Reinecke in his triple quality as composer, conductor and pianist. The Leipsic Nestor produced with the Philharmonic Orchestra, which did conscientiously and rather better than ordinarily, under his baton, the "Prologus Solemnis," which was composed by him for the 150th anniversary commemoration of the Gewandhaus concerts, and which at the time was fully described in THE MUSICAL COURIER by our
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