Professor Alfred Wittenberg, in his mid-November recital at the American Woman's Club, gave a well-balanced programme. The three sonatas"chosen™ could scarcely" have been in better contrast. From a setting which might easily have appeared in the time of Liszt or Schubert came the Tartini Trille clu Diable with its amazing Cadenza at the end, played with consummate skill. The exacting Kreutzer Sonata by Beethoven gave equal opportunity to piano and violin. Professor Wittenberg's sure and. tasteful. phrasing appeared here to advantage. the tone-colour in musical speech aspired to by vocalists, but rarely attained.
The able support of Madame Esther Lerman-Vitenson was constant throughout the programme, perhaps most gracious in the Scherzo movement of the Beethoven, Her delicate touch and the precision of the swift running passages were delightful to hear. In marked contrast of composition, after the interval came the fresh, buoyant patterns of Cesar Frank in A major. With more than a flavour of whole-tone scale struc-
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