Richard Temple Savage in Sheffield - 1936
from A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician, page 41:
The highlight of the Sheffield Festival was seeing and hearing Rachmaninoff. We performed his cantata "The Bells" though nobody quite seemed to know why he did not in the end conduct it himself, and I was sitting close to him as he played his Second Piano Concerto. He wore an evening dress that was literally green with age, sat very still and hummed throughout on one note while, without any histrionics, he produced the most beautiful playing I have ever heard - an absolute revelation.
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Richard Temple Savage, A voice from the Pit: Reminiscences of an Orchestral Musician (Newton Abbot, 1988), p. 41. https://led.kmi.open.ac.uk/entity/lexp/1426871284433 accessed: 16 April, 2024
Listeners
Richard Temple Savage
clarinettist music librarian, writer, music librarian, Clarinetist, Writer
clarinettist music librarian, writer, music librarian, Clarinetist, Writer
1909-
Listening to
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'The Bells' op. 35
written by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra |
Piano Concerto No. 2
written by Sergei Rachmaninoff |
performed by Sergei Rachmaninoff, London Philharmonic Orchestra |
Experience Information
| Date/Time | 1936 |
| Medium | live |
| Listening Environment | in the company of others, in private, indoors, in public |
Notes
Follows on from Experience 1426871298804.
Originally submitted by iepearson on Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:08:04 +0000
Approved on Sun, 20 Dec 2015 15:30:42 +0000