At The Organ of the Gaumont Palace Cinema,
Chester

Maxim TURGANOFF (Tenor)

Conducted by CHARLES LEGGETT
SOPHIE ROWLANDS (Soprano)

HEDDA KUX (Soprano)
THE INTERNATIONAL STRING
QUARTET:
ANDRÉ MANGEOT (Violin) ; WALTER PRICE (Violin) ; ERIC BRAY (Viola); JACK SHINEBOURNE (Violoncello)
The 'Fantasias of Henry Purcell , transcribed and edited by Peter Warlock and André Alangeot from a British Museum manuscript strangely overlooked until a few years ago, have proved to Le one of the most valuable of all recent discoveries. Besides possessing a beauty remarkable even for Purcell, the polyphonic craft these fantasias display and the varied manner in which the music is presented show the great English composer to have been not only a genuis, but a prophet. There are passages, it is true, which are of the age of Byrd,
but that one should, in listening to the fantasias (written in 1680), be idiomatically reminded or Bach. Beethoven, Schumann, or others of the nineteenth century, and even of the twentieth, would seem incredible to those who have not experienced tho illusion.
Ernst von Dohnanyi has been made welcome to this country on several occasions and for every
, one of the talents he has displayed to us. He is a pianist, with a very distinguished reputation; he has conducted our orchestras and has proved his right to be asked to do so; but it is perhaps as a composer that we have learned to regard him most highly. He is, in the first place, an impeccable craftsman, he treats tunes as friendly things and makes us share his friendship; he can even make music laugh, and for that faculty, 'so rare with others, we are filled with gratitude. This beantiful Quartet was written a quarter of a century ago and is still as young as when it was first put on paper.