THE CARRENO RECITAL

Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2161, 17 August 1907, Page 2

THE CARRENO RECITAL

Concerning Madame Carrono, who gives a recital hero on Tuesday next tlie Southeren press speaks in the most laudatory terms. Referring to her first recital in Dunedin the “Otago Daily Times” taysßeport, lavish as it lias been has not endowed her with a single gift too many. She in truly a magnificient artist, a musician of arresting powers, a memorablo personality. Unquestionably last evening’s recital as His Majesty’s Theatre will rank as one of the very highest of the musical events which have ever taken place in this city. It may be that musicians of the very highest attainments and genius suffer occasionally a certain penalty of greatness, but there is that about the art of such a pianist as Madame Carreno that must inevitably appeal, not to a limited class of the musicallyeducated only, but to all whom musical appreciation lias the faintest glimmerings. The musician who can rouse a Dunedin audience to enthusiasm has, as experience has shown, achieved something of a feat. Madame Carreno carried her audience irresistibly with her from the outset,- and throughout a programme of delightful variety and excellence held her bearers spellbound by the magnetism of her playing, and the still intensity of the attention accorded her, the manner in which the audience hung upon the notes of the music, was a compliment even more speaking than its vociferous plaudits. It happens that Madame Carreno is a pianist, but whatever instrument she had chosen upon which to express herself she must still have been a great artist. To hear her in such a programme of music as she contributed last evening is no small part of a liberal education itself, and if it represent the unattainable and Ultima Thule to the average student of music it is in tho nature of the indispensable lesson. A pianist of superlative powers, of astonishing virility and suberb technique, Madame Carreno is yet a wonderfully sympathetic player,' and has an eloquence of touch that is little short of a revelation.