Those who ut to Dr, Anne house on Monday afternoon to hear Miss Dawson-Campbell's piano recital Joyed some of the most beautiful playing they have heard, Mostly Mies Campbell played Chopin, varied by Liszt's "Liebestraum", " Sche-man's "Warum" and a delightful Spanish dance by Albaniz, a graphic little piece played all the exhilaration it connotes. For a finale there was a lovely nocturne {for the left hand—one thinks Mis (Campbell said by Scriabin.—Mis Campbell studied for part of her time under Pachmann, the greatest of all exponents of Chopin, and ah ably carries on the Pachmanm tradition. Most people play Chopin too {fast and too noisily. Yet so well recognized a critic as Hadow has pointed out that in the composer's Jown playing, his "ff was no louder than most people's forte; and that which pianists are wont to on for a clattering splay of fireworks were really meant only to lend a sort of waft iridescence to the theme, anything but splashy. Miss Campbell's playing of the famous Minute Valse was a perfect specimen of the "real Rosenthal re wrote it in ud sixths; Munz has composed some horrible travesty of it a similar idea; as if Chopin could not be trusted to know what he wanted to do with it! Miss Campbell it comparatively slowly, oftly and with the utmost The result was perfec: tion. it before and one hoped One felt one had never heard hear it again unless played in the fame way. Her renderings of Chopin are singularly complete and [proportioned. Many people seem to think that be just improvised, going on more or less anyhow until tired; and certainly one comes across asanges the relevancy of whiok expr Miss Campbell showed nary players find it hard to
that his composition is as home-generous as a Beethoven Sonata. In ferent school she gave us a beautiful rendering of "Warum" a piece which everybody can play correctly so far as the notes go. This is the sort of piece which reatly. displays the artist and Mise Campbell came out of the test gloriously, as indeed dhe does in everything she touches. Her interpretations are rich in colour and charm, and she brings out the internal melodies with the peculiar singing effect which one remembers so'well in her master.
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