Benjamin Britten in Queen's Hall - 22 September, 1931
from Diary of Benjamin Britten, Sept 22 1931, page 83:
Go to Liverpool St. to see them & Barbara off to Lowestoft by 3.10. Tea here. Walk after. Go to Prom. after early dinner (6.30). Volga Boatman’s Song (blatently arranged). Song of Flea (Moussorgsky) – Harold Williams excellently sung. – very amusing. Rachmaninov’s terrible – vulgar, old-fashioned 2nd Pft. Concerto (Solomon). Mossolov’s Factory – amusing – nothing more. Tchaikovsky’s 4th Symphony – which makes one long for Chamber music & Mozart, & makes one deplore the discovery of “Fate”. Rather ragged orchestral playing. I prom, only till ½ time.
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Benjamin Britten, Diary of Benjamin Britten, Sept 22 1931. In John Evans (ed.), Journeying boy : the diaries of the young Benjamin Britten 1928-1938, volume 72 (:London, 2009), p. 83. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1422903481651 accessed: 28 November, 2024
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Piano Concerto No. 2
written by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
performed by Solomon, BBC Symphonic Orchestra, Henry Wood |
Song of the Flea (arr. Henry Wood)
written by Modest Mussorgsky |
performed by Harold Williams, BBC Symphonic Orchestra, Henry Wood |
Song of the Volga Boatmen (arr. Henry Wood)
written by Aleksandr Glazunov |
performed by BBC Symphonic Orchestra, Henry Wood |
Symphony No. 4
written by Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky |
performed by BBC Symphonic Orchestra, Henry Wood |
The Foundry, Op 19
written by Aleksandr Mosolov |
performed by BBC Symphonic Orchestra, Henry Wood |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 22 September, 1931 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, indoors, in public |
Originally submitted by Simon Brown on Mon, 02 Feb 2015 18:58:02 +0000