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‘Ysaÿe’s pictures are tone paintings’ - From the archive: February 1905

2025-02-14T07:45:00

Y c.1925 (apparently!)

US correspondent Edith L. Winn describes a stateside performance by Eugène Ysaÿe in prose so effusive that even the virtuoso would blush

THE Vieuxtemps Concerto in D minor was a triumph because the soloist shone in all his splendid force as an executant, an emotional artist, and a legitimate interpreter of a particular style of composition now fast becoming hackneyed in the hands of an increasing number of prodigies. Ysaye played wonderfully. He has set his own standard here in America, and few there are who can approach it. He plays with authority because he is equipped, by long and continuous practice, to make light of great technical difficulties…

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