There was no Inck of admirers of Efrem Zimbalist at the Town Hall on Saturday, night when be first recital and he had [added to the number of them before we' left the hall. Zimbalist's personality is as charming as ever and the recital was a great pleasure, He seems in some ways to have grown a thought more serious since he was last here, and there is also a new strain of mysticism in his playing. This was shown in the Adagio of the Buhay concerto, a beautiful piece of music, most feelingly played, especially the concluding passage of pianissimo trills, which were unearthly. The rest of the concerto we did not care about: it struck one as intend-to. show off a violinist's technique with very little other Purpose. The Handel Sonata was charming,—especially, also, the dogie, with its long, long' bows. Zimbalist plays such music to per-In the second half he showed what he can do in the way of witchery, with, among other things, a specially delicious pice by Grainger, called "Molly on the Shore," most graphic. mus ily "repeated it in answer to the call for an encore. The prog: was to play the £* but it turned out to be "Carmen." How-lever, it wax no less agreeable. The by Haydn is another memory to carry away. This also was encored. What the violinist's bowing arm must have felt like at the enid, one cannot imagine. How does mortal "man achieve such technique? Yet it all seemed simple. The ease and mast Zimbalist's playing. ave ax be admired as his beautiful i prelations, He never strains after fan effect; his readings might almost be called old-fashioned, But they perfect example of what a real artist can do by the simplest Mr, Bay, who accompanies, strate pianist with a very sympathetic touch, There was a mentary' misunderstanding once the Concerto, but otherwise the cnmemble was excellent, particularly retards Mr. Bay's playing in last encore.
The Second Recital For reasons not to be understood on this side of the grave, music ha: the power to evoke different im ages at different times, On Tuesday there was in Zimbalist's playing the suggestion of water in all its forms: sometimes a still, grey, misty sen islands far such ax we sce the to the st sometimes the wide, glassy mere which received Ex: cealibur; and sometimes all thi fountains of Versailles playing together. Whatever the picture, it was wholly appropriate and utterly delightful, Zimbalist wax at hie Lest last night, one felt it from the first moment of the Buch "Pracluium:" he rose to that best at the outset and he never fell below it. Alike in tone, technique and pretation his playing was ably beautiful. have been "feeling good because, for encore at the end of the first part, hho gave us Beethoven's Romane There is no more divine piece for the violin and Zimbalist only plays it when he feels, so to speak, that must.
The programme chosen throughout in the happiest mood The Bach, already mentioned, was beautiful example of combined ex. pressiveness avd dignity, she joy onsness of a fine nature which unbends but never becomes jocose. And every note of the Taro symphony is a pleasure: it is one of those pieces which please every tone and set are never cheap. But if one can say that any item was better played than all the rest, one might pick out the slow intraductio and air of the "Zigeuner Weisen. Everybody knows it, many amateurs (though Teaving the last movement prudently alone) make some sort of fist of it; it may easily degenerate into sentimentality or what most worst, coot Zimbalist played it quite simply with extraordinary beauty of tone and expressiveness that was nev ing. He showed, whi the fact for all that the used to speak slightingly of him, poser, One word also must be give to the Tschaikovsky "Andante" played on muted strings with the most appealing toes, and Elgar's "Saint d'Amour"—another example of what everybody knows but, which many may have felt they were hearing for the first time.
Zimbalist was very generous with his encores and his audience gave him the reception he deserved, They were with difficulty persuaded to Jaccept his last bow as final, He was in complete sympathy with them all through the evening and they with him. Mr, Bay accompanied perfectly. Whether as accompanist or soloist, we have seldom heard a more sympathetic touch. His execution ix pure and delicate and he made the piano sound ax one instrument with the violin, The Third Recital The third and lust recital found Zimbalist inthe same delightful mood as on Tuesday night. His Programme was notably well chosen including two works which tone specially associates with his memory from his former visit—the Mendelssohn Concerto and the.
Wieniawski "Faust Fantaisie,"
With the latter Zimbalist. is peculiarly in sympathy. It is really a beautiful piece of music, ringing out through the slender medium of two instruments all the romance that one associates. with the great story of Faust, Even the passage in harmonies, when played with the right feeling ax Zimbatist plays it, Calls into place harmoniously. As for the Concerto, there is no need (o repeat what has already been said of it, Zimbalist play nothing with instinct finer and we know ist who viol expresses iL better, Mis own the OME Style" is very fresh and tuneful, pa the number "Lexitionne, he way, Zimbalist fe also table lurist and whos hhis writing of aesompaniments, "Phe recond half of the programme, feontrast, was mostly ina subilued ex, of which, perhaps, the Couperis Chanson Lasvla XU" was the beat And Hie one ex he gave case nye yeel Shore.
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