Lionel Tertis in Queen's Hall - 24 November, 1931

from My Viola and I: a complete autobiography / Lionel Tertis, page 62:

In the crowded years that followed, a memory I particularly cherish is one of a performance (24 November 1931) of Strauss’s Don Quixote at Queen’s Hall under Henry Wood, with Pau Casals as the cellist and myself playing the solo viola part with him. In the second part of the programme Casals played Haydn’s concerto in D. He was obviously in a nervous state just before going on to the platform and turned to me clasping both hands together, saying in a piteous tone: ‘Pray for me!’ Needless to say the performance was magnificent. Dear and great artist. One of the privileges of that …   more >>
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Lionel Tertis, My Viola and I: a complete autobiography / Lionel Tertis (Great Britain, 1974), p. 62. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1424381372309 accessed: 7 November, 2024

location of experience: Queen's Hall

Listeners

Lionel Tertis
Violist
1876-1975

Listening to

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Cello Concerto nº 2 in D major Hob. VIIb:2
written by Joseph Haydn
performed by Pablo Casals

Experience Information

Date/Time 24 November, 1931
Medium live
Listening Environment in the company of others, indoors, in public

Originally submitted by tlisboa on Thu, 19 Feb 2015 21:29:32 +0000
Approved on Tue, 12 Jan 2016 14:09:06 +0000