Donnst. 29. 11.

[final version only:] Dohnanyi II. Beeth . op. 106, Adagio ganz wunderschön gespielt; Erster Satz, u. letzter S. dagegen nur mit unzureichenden technischen Mitteln vorgetragen, Fuge zumal mit Ped. vertuscht, (wenn sicher nicht ohne klares Erfassen des Ganzen). Eigene Compositionen „Schumannesk“-gewollt; jedes ohne höhere bestimmtere Fantasie. Chopin manchmal gut, Ballade Gmoll aber schlecht u. unachtsam gebracht. 1

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2017

Thursday, November 29

[final version only:] Dohnanyi II: Beethoven, Op. 106, the Adagio truly wonderfully played; the first and last movements, conversely, performed with only inadequate technical means, the fugue particularly muddied with pedal (although certainly not without a clear conception of the whole). His own compositions in Schumannesque style; each one lacking that higher, more distinctive quality of imagination. Chopin sometimes good, but the G minor Ballade badly and carelessly rendered. 1

© Translation Ian Bent, 2017

Donnst. 29. 11.

[final version only:] Dohnanyi II. Beeth . op. 106, Adagio ganz wunderschön gespielt; Erster Satz, u. letzter S. dagegen nur mit unzureichenden technischen Mitteln vorgetragen, Fuge zumal mit Ped. vertuscht, (wenn sicher nicht ohne klares Erfassen des Ganzen). Eigene Compositionen „Schumannesk“-gewollt; jedes ohne höhere bestimmtere Fantasie. Chopin manchmal gut, Ballade Gmoll aber schlecht u. unachtsam gebracht. 1

© Transcription Ian Bent, 2017

Thursday, November 29

[final version only:] Dohnanyi II: Beethoven, Op. 106, the Adagio truly wonderfully played; the first and last movements, conversely, performed with only inadequate technical means, the fugue particularly muddied with pedal (although certainly not without a clear conception of the whole). His own compositions in Schumannesque style; each one lacking that higher, more distinctive quality of imagination. Chopin sometimes good, but the G minor Ballade badly and carelessly rendered. 1

© Translation Ian Bent, 2017

Footnotes

1 This, the second of two recitals by Dohnanyi (the first having been on November 19), took place, according to the Neue freie Presse, at 7.30 p.m. on November 29 in the Bösendorf Recital Hall. The program comprised the Beethoven Piano Sonata in Bę major, Op. 106 ("Hammerklavier"), Dohnányi, Winterreigen, Chopin, Ballade in G minor, Op. 23, Impromptu in Fě major, Op. 36, Mazurka in C major, Op. 56, No. 2, Mazurka in A minor, Op. 59, No. 1, and Scherzo in Cě minor, Op. 39.