Richard Edgcumbe in Westminster Abbey - 1834
from Musical Reminiscences: Containing an Account of Italian Opera in England, From 1773. The Fourth Edition, Continued to the Present Time, and Including The Festival in Westminster Abbey., page 240:
One of the most marked failures [of the performance of choruses of Handel] occurred in the very beginning. The burst of ‘Light’ in the first chorus of the Creation, was so comparatively feeble to what I had always heard it before, that my attention, which happened to be attracted elsewhere at the moment, was not roused by the sudden crash it ought to have produced. It disappointed all.
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Richard Edgcumbe, Musical Reminiscences: Containing an Account of Italian Opera in England, From 1773. The Fourth Edition, Continued to the Present Time, and Including The Festival in Westminster Abbey. (London, 1834), p. 240. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1448635413557 accessed: 23 April, 2024
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Handel's 'Creation'
written by George Frideric Handel |
performed by anonymous singers |
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| Date/Time | 1834 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Gorwel Owen on Fri, 27 Nov 2015 14:43:33 +0000
Approved on Sat, 22 Oct 2016 08:51:47 +0100