Relayed from The Queen's Hall, London
(Sole Lessees, Messrs. Chappell and Co., Ltd.)
THE LONDON PHILHARMONIC
ORCHESTRA
Conductors,
SIR THOMAS BEECHAM and ILDEBRANDO PIZZETTI
Ildebrando Pizzetti , a trio by whom was heard in a programme of chamber music in January last,' has only recently become at all well known in this country, and even now we have a long way to go before we can have real opportunity to esteem him at his worth. In Italy he is considered as perhaps the most significant composer of the day. His opera, Debora c Jaele, which has been performed in most European countries and in America., is not only a beautiful work, but it shows Pizzetti to be a reformer-and . possibly a prophet with some remarkable ideas of what the future of opera may be. Yet in substituting a modern form of dramatic recitative for the former lyricism of Italian opera, he has, in the opinion of those who admire his work, happily succeeded in achieving merely another type of lyrical melodic beauty. Here, therefore, is an opportunity of appreciating his idiom and his methods, for the Rondo Veneziano is the first considerable work of Pizzetti to be performed in this country.