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These one can play as well as shorter numbers by Vieuxtemps and Wieniawski that are delightful, such as the former's Ballade et Polonaise, though I know of musical purists who disapprove of it. I consider this Polonaise on a level with Chopin's. Or take, in the virtuoso field, Sarasate's Gypsy Airs they are equal to any Liszt Rhapsody.
Nachéz, "but when my name happens to be mentioned, echo always answers 'Gypsy Dances, my little rubbishy 'Gypsy Dances! It is not quite fair. I wrote the 'Gypsy Dances' as a mere boy when I was studying with H. Léonard in Paris, and really at his suggestion. In one of my lessons I played Sarasate's 'Spanish Dances, which chanced to be published at the time, and at once made a great hit.
Anything approaching the beauty of his rendering of the final "Allegro" Alwyn had never heard, and indeed it is probable none WILL ever hear a more poetical, more exquisite SINGING OF THOUGHT than this matchless example of Sarasate's genius and power.
"There's enough liquor in the head when the fiddle's in the hand. 'Dadia', I do not need the spirit to make the pulses go!" "As little as you like then, if you'll only play as well as you did this afternoon," Ingolby said cheerily. "I will play better," was the reply. "On Sarasate's violin well, of course." "Not only because it is Sarasate's violin, 'Kowadji'!" "Kowadji!
He has not stirred an inch, or moved an eyelash, during Sarasate's performance, and the violent applause of the audience was manifestly distasteful to him! He has merely written one line down in his note-book, it is most probably to the effect that the 'Spanish fiddler met with his usual success at the hands of the undiscriminating public!" Alwyn laughed.
At luncheon, whilst half-a-dozen persons lent willing ear, she compared Sarasate's playing of Beethoven's Concerto with that of Joachim, and declared that Sarasate's cadenza in the first movement, though marvellous for technical skill, was not at all in the spirit of the work. The influential writer applauded, drawing her on to fresh displays of learning, taste, eloquence.
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