Madam, – Your music critic Michael Dervan (Reviews, December 8th) didn’t think much of Stefan Tönz’s performance as soloist in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on Friday night at the NCH.
“Tönz got off to a very unsettled start,” he says, “with peculiar irregularities of rhythm and pitching that was not always at the centre of the note.”
Judging by the applause he received when finished, and the request for an encore, it seems that the audience just loved his “little peculiarities of rhythm and pitch”.
Perfection can become so tiresome in a musician.
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Pianist Arthur Rubinstein and singer Maria Callas delighted their audiences with such peculiarities. – Yours, etc,