"Beethoven in his most romantic mood" is one authority's comment on the Pianoforte Concerto No. 4 in G, which Solomon will play in toda: London Music Festival's Beethoven concert to be heard by Daventry listeners. It is a work that has given io the world some of the loveliest phrases ever written for the piano—they occur in the slow movement, in a dialogue between strings and solo instrument that Schumann likened to Orpheus' appeal to the Underworld for Eurydice.
Solomon, who will play with the BBC Symphony Orchestra under its conductor, Sir Adrian Boult, is a Londoner—he was born in Whitechapel thirty-six years ago. Before he was ten years of age it was obvious that one day he would join the ranks of the world's foremost pianists: he was only eight when he created a sensation among music-lovers by playing a Tchaikovsky concerto, and there were fourteen such works in his repertoire before he was twelve. But, realising the value of hard training, he retired from the public platform to concentrate wholly on studying his art. He made his second début—and immediately won recognition as a master of his instruments—in 1926.
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