February 16, 1922
MUSICAL COURIER
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Photo by Henry Costerà, Paris
WITH STRAUSS IN ORCHESTRAL CONCERT, ALBERT HALL, LONDON, JAN. 17.
UNANIMOUS LONDON PRESS.
THE DAILY NEWS:
On the whole the songs were the most attractive feature of the evening, for Miss Frank not only gave them a personal note, but sang with delightful ease and purity of tone.
THE SPHERE:
She contributed materially to the success of the evening. No praise could be higher. It is not easy to contribute to the success of any evening when one of the greatest composers, if not the greatest composer in the world is on the platform. But Miss Frank sang exceedingly well. Her interpretation of the songs was excellent—in at least one case, superlatively excellent. The Albert Hall is a merciless discoverer of faulty production. Miss Frank’s clarity of tone and admirable diction proved her merits once and for all.
SUNDAY EXPRESS:
I can recall no singer whose work betrays a higher sense of musicianship or who holds the balance between the demands of song and interpretation more evenly. Her entries were remarkable for the subtlety of their making and her expressive voice throughout was part of the orchestra rather than a separate unit.
THE DAILY GRAPHIC:
But—with what divinity of grace was the music written; and how brilliantly Ethel Frank sang!
DAILY MIRROR:
Two groups of songs were rendered by Miss Ethel Frank with consummate artistry.
MORNING POST:
Miss Ethel Frank much increased her reputation. The audience was not slow to recognize both the charm and the expressiveness
LONDON NOTICES
MANCHESTER GUARDIAN “London Edition”
Ernest Newman writes, “But if there was no personality in the conducting there was any amount in the singing of some Strauss songs by Miss Ethel Frank, whose extraordinary gift for sustaining and poising a big phrase showed up better than ever in this vast space. Her emotional absorption in the music even reacted on Strauss: into the orchestral accompaniments of the songs, and especially of the lovely “Morgen,” he put an intensity of feeling that was most sadly lacking in his conducting of the symphonic poems.
THE TIMES.
Miss Frank sang with rare refinement and sympathy. “Morgen,” one of Strauss’ most appealing songs, suited her peculiarly well, and it was remarkable with what success she managed to preserve the personal feeling of the lyric, so that while she was singing it there was a real silence throughout the audience, a thing which only comes in the Albert Hall when the singer has gained complete attention.
WESTMINSTER GAZETTE:
Miss Frank sang with her usual culture and intellectualism, colored with that touch of rare genius which transforms words with music into the beauty and charm of a perfect song.