Susan Tomes - August, 1982

from Domus Diary: Wormwood Scrubs, Thamesmead and Battersea, pages 65-66:

The Sunday was our last concert day of the season and everyone tried to feel either sorrow or relief, but was too tired to do so.... I personally felt that I had switched on to automatic pilot; I had no real idea of how well the afternoon concert went, and even the last concert, which by all accounts was a great success, passed by on another wavelength. But the Schubert Quintet in the second half was the best-balanced performance I had heard all summer, and therefore the most moving. It did not have the high colour of some of the other performances; it did not have the dramatic personality …   more >>
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Susan Tomes, Domus Diary: Wormwood Scrubs, Thamesmead and Battersea. In Beyond the notes : journeys with chamber music (Woodbridge, 2004), p. 65-66. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1402327999618 accessed: 29 March, 2024

Listeners

Susan Tomes
Pianist, Writer
1954-

Listening to

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String Quintet in C major, D956 (, performance of)
written by Franz Schubert
performed by Domus, Richard Lester

Experience Information

Date/Time August, 1982
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, in private, indoors

Originally submitted by iepearson on Mon, 09 Jun 2014 16:33:19 +0100